Family of mites
Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata .[ 1] [ 2]
Ecology
The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera ; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous , though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous .[ 3]
For some specific examples, species of Winterschmidtia and Parawinterschmidtia are associated with beetles living under bark (especially bark beetles ), Vespacarus and Kennethiella with eumenine wasps and Vidia with Megachile bees.[ 2] The genus Psylloglyphus (which is in Oulenziinae[ 4] ) is associated with fleas .[ 5]
Genera
These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:[ 6]
Acalvolia Fain, 1971
Allocalvolia Fain & Rack, 1987
Calvolia Oudemans, 1911
Congovidia Fain & Elsen, in Fain, 1971
Crabrovidia Zakhvatkin, 1941
Czenspinskia Oudemans, 1927
Ensliniella Vitzthum, 1925
Gambacarus Mahunka, 1975
Kennethiella Cooreman, 1954
Kurosaia Okabe & OConnor, 2002
Macroharpa Mostafa, 1970
Monobiacarus Baker & Cunliffe, 1960
Neocalvolia Hughes, 1970
Neosuidasia Ranganath & Channabasa, 1983
Neottiglyphus Volgin, 1974
Oulenzia Radford, 1950
Oulenziella Fan et al. , 2015
Parawinterschmidtia Khaustov, 2000
Procalvolia Fain, 1971
Riemia Oudemans, 1925
Saproglyphus Berlese, 1890
Sphexicozela Mahunka, 1970
Trypetacarus Fain, 1971
Vespacarus Baker, 1960
Vidia Oudemans, 1905
Winterschmidtia Oudemans, 1923
Zethacarus Mostafa, 1971
Zethovidia Mostafa, 1970
References
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"Winterschmidtiidae" . GBIF . Retrieved 2019-02-18 .
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"Winterschmidtiidae Family Information" . bugguide.net . Retrieved 2019-02-18 .
^ Barbosa, Marina Ferraz de Camargo; Moraes, Gilberto José de (2021-06-01). "Mites of the family Winterschmidtiidae (Acari: Sarcoptiformes: Astigmatina) from agricultural habitats in Brazil, with description of a new species and a key to species reported" . Systematic and Applied Acarology : 1040– 1054. doi :10.11158/saa.26.6.3 . ISSN 2056-6069 . S2CID 235676259 .
^ Fan, Qing-Hai; Faraji, Farid (2022-03-30). "Mites of the genus Oulenziella Fan and Zhang (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae), with description of a new species from Kenya" (PDF) . Acarologia . 62 (1): 148– 160. doi :10.24349/i2bo-zeic .
^ Hastriter, Michael; E. Bush, Sarah (2014-05-13). "Description of Medwayella independencia (Siphonaptera, Stivaliidae), a new species of flea from Mindanao Island, the Philippines and their phoretic mites, and miscellaneous flea records from the Malay Archipelago" . ZooKeys (408): 107– 123. Bibcode :2014ZooK..408..107H . doi :10.3897/zookeys.408.7479 . ISSN 1313-2970 . PMC 4042829 . PMID 24899840 .
^ Beron, Petar (2021). Acarorum Catalogus IX. Acariformes, Acaridida, Schizoglyphoidea (Schizoglyphidae), Histiostomatoidea (Histiostomatidae, Guanolichidae), Canestrinioidea (Canestriniidae, Chetochelacaridae, Lophonotacaridae, Heterocoptidae), Hemisarcoptoidea (Chaetodactylidae, Hyadesiidae, Algophagidae, Hemisarcoptidae, Carpoglyphidae, Winterschmidtiidae) . Advanced Books. doi :10.3897/ab.e68613 . ISBN 978-619-248-058-5 .
Further reading
Gaud, Jean; Atyeo, Warren T. (1996). "Feather mites of the world (Acarina, Astigmata): the supraspecific taxa". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Sciences Zoologiques .
Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology . Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208 .
Pepato, A.R.; Klimov, P.B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment" . BMC Evolutionary Biology . 15 : 178. doi :10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2 . PMC 4557820 . PMID 26330076 .
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