Tydeidae

Tydeidae
"Yellow mite", Lorryia formosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Acari
Order:	Trombidiformes
(unranked):	Eupodides
Superfamily:	Tydeoidea
Family:	Tydeidae Kramer, 1877
Subfamiliae
Australotydaeinae Edbakerellinae Pronematinae Triophtydeinae Tydaeolinae Tydeinae
Diversity
c. 60 genera, > 370 species

Tydeidae is a family of acariform mites. These are generally small mites with muted colours. The body is soft, often with complex striated or reticulated patterns. Some species have two or three eyes although many are completely eyeless.

These mites live in a wide range of habitats and there are predatory, fungivorous and scavenging species.

Genera of Tydeidae include:

• Acanthotydides
• Idiolorryia
• Krantzlorryia
• Lorryia
• Metalorryia
• Neoapolorryia
• Nudilorryia
• Paralorryia
• Pronematus
• Pseudolorryia
• Tydeus
• Tydides

References

• Tydeidae at Fauna Europaea
• Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Tydeidae

External links

• Media related to Tydeidae at Wikimedia Commons