Biology:Glycyphagidae

Short description: Family of mites

Glycyphagidae
Gohieria fusca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Oribatida
Superfamily:	Glycyphagoidea
Family:	Glycyphagidae

Glycyphagidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata. There are more than 25 genera and 100 described species in Glycyphagidae.

The natural habitat of most species of this family is nests of rodents, insectivores, and opossums, although many now live among humans in stored food or housing.

Genera

These 27 genera belong to the family Glycyphagidae:

• Apodemopus Fain, 1967
• Asiolabidophorus Lukoschus, Gerrits & Fain, 1977
• Austroglycyphagus
• Dermacarus Haller, 1880
• Diamesoglyphus Zachvatkin, 1941
• Dipodomyopus Fain & Lukoschus, 1978
• Eupygopus Lukoschus, Rothuizen & Fain, 1977
• Glycyphagoides
• Glycyphagus Hering, 1838
• Gohieria Oudemans, 1939
• Hypodectes Filippi, 1861
• Labidophorus Kramer, 1877
• Lepidoglyphus Zakhvatkin, 1936
• Lophioglyphus Volgin, 1964
• Marsupialichus Fain, 1967
• Mediolabidophorus Fain & Lukoschus, 1978
• Melesodectes Fain & Lukoschus, 1968
• Metalabidophorus Fain, 1967
• Microlabidopus Fain, 1967
• Neoxenoryctes Fain & Philips, 1977
• Orycteroxenus Zachvatkin, 1941
• Scalopacarus Fain & Whitaker, 1973
• Soriculopus Fain & Lukoschus, 1980
• Xenocastor Zachvatkin, 1941
• Xenoryctes Zachvatkin, 1941
• † Marmosopus Fain & Lukoschus, 1977
• † Neotetracopus Fain, 1969

Further reading

• A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. 2009. 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. PMID 26330076. PMC 4557820. https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4566973 entry