Taxonomic Position

Suborder Sejida

Suborder Trigynaspida

   

Comments:

• Mesostigmata in these two suborders are not members of the suborder Monogynaspida and are not keyed out here.  More about them can be found in the key Major Mite Taxa. 

• Members of the Sejida are predators usually associated with woody habitats (e.g. tree holes, suspended soils, rotting logs) or leaf litter.  Many have a phoretic deutonymphal stage that hitches rides in beetles or flies. 

• Most members of the Trigynaspida are associated with insects (especially beetles), millipedes or centipedes.  A few are found on reptiles and some families are comprised of free-living mites, mostly in tropical to subtropical forest litter.