Taxonomic Position

Cohort Gamasina

Subcohort Dermanyssiae

    Superfamily Dermanyssoidea

Family Laelapidae Trägårdh

Subfamily Hypoaspidinae Vitzthum

Androlaelaps Berlese

 

[not in key: Coleolaelaps Berlese, Dyscinetonyssus Moss & Funk, Blaberolaelaps Costa, Gromphadorholaleaps Till, Hypoaspis (s.s.) Canestrini, Laelaspis Berlese]

 

Diagnostic characters:

• Laelapid mites with very large pili dentilus with inflated bases.

 

Similar taxa. 

 

Ecology & Distribution.  Commonly vertebrate nest associated species or in stored products.

 

References

Casanueva ME.  1993.  Phylogenetic studies of the free-living arthropod associated Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata).  Gayana Zoologica 57: 21-46.

Domrow R. 1966. Some laelapid mites of syndactylous marsupials. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 90 : 164-175.

Domrow R. 1972. Eight Australian species of Andreacarus Radford and Haemolaelaps Berlese (Acari : Dermanyssidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 105-113.

Domrow R. 1988. Acari Mesostigmata parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 817-948.

Evans EO & Till WM.  1979.  Mesostigmatic mites of Britain and Ireland (Chelicerata: Acari-Parasitiformes).  An introduction to their external morphology and classification.  Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 35 (2): 145-270.

Gilyarov MS & Bregatova NG (eds)  1977.  Handbook for the Identification of Soil-inhabiting Mites, Mesostigmata.  Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences: Petrograd [In Russian]

Karg W.  1993.  Acari (Acarina), Milben Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta) Cohors Gamasina Leach, Raubmilben.  Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 59: 1-523.  [In German]

Krantz GW.  1978.  A Manual of Acarology.  OSU Bookstores: Corvallis.

Krantz GW & Ainscough B.  1990.  Mesostigmata.  pp. 583-665, in DL Dindal (ed) Soil Biology Guide.  John Wiley & Sons: Brisbane.