Caeculidae
| Caeculidae Temporal range: [1]
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| Predatory rake mite (Caeculidae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Trombidiformes |
| Superfamily: | Caeculoidea |
| Family: | Caeculidae |
Caeculidae is a family of mites in the order Trombidiformes, the only family of the superfamily Caeculoidea. There are about 6 genera and more than 30 described species in Caeculidae, found in North America, Australia, and southern Africa.[2][3][4][5]
Genera
These six genera belong to the family Caeculidae:
- Allocaeculus Franz, 1952
- Andocaeculus Coineau, 1974
- Caeculus Dufour, 1832
- Calocaeculus Coineau, 1974
- Microcaeculus Franz, 1952
- Neocaeculus Coineau, 1967
References
- ^ Andrés O. Porta; Daniel N. Proud; Ezequiel Franchi; Willians Porto; María Bernarda Epele; Peter Michalik (2019). "The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family". Zootaxa. 4647 (1): 23–43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5.
- ^ "Caeculidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Caeculidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Caeculidae Family Information". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ Zhang, Z.Q.; Fan, Q.H.; Pesic, V.; Smit, H.; et al. (2011). "Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness, order trombidiformes reuter, 1909". Zootaxa. 3148: 129–138. ISSN 1175-5326.
Further reading
- Halliday, R.B.; O'connor, O'B.M.; Baker, A.S. (2000). Raven, P.H. (ed.). "Global diversity of mites". Nature and Human Society—the Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy Press: 192–203. doi:10.17226/6142.
- Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
External links
Media related to Caeculidae at Wikimedia Commons
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