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Predatory mites (Gamasina, Mesostigmata)

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 1999
Abstract Mesostigmata or Gamasida are known from a wide range of habitats. Most of them are free living predators in soil and litter, on the soil surface or on plants. Some are able to disperse rapidly by phoresy. In agroecosystems, edaphic Mesostigmata are important predators of Nematoda, Collembola and insect larvae, and those living on plants may ...
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Mites of the family diarthrophallidae (acari: mesostigmata)

International Journal of Acarology, 1978
(1978). Mites of the family diarthrophallidae (acari: mesostigmata) International Journal of Acarology: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 279-385.
R.O. Schuster, F.M. Summers
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Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Zootaxa, 2023
Laelapidae Canestrini, 1891 is one of the most diverse mite families in the order Mesostigmata, but the Indian fauna of this family is very poorly known. This paper is a checklist of the known species of Laelapidae recorded from India, with a summary of the available information on the distribution and biology of each species.
Krishna Karmakar, Bruce Halliday
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Evolution of Haplodiploidy in Dermanyssine Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Evolution, 1999
Haplodiploidy, a widespread phenomenon in which males are haploid and females are diploid, can be caused by a number of different underlying genetic systems. In the most common of these, arrhenotoky, males arise from unfertilized eggs, whereas females arise from fertilized eggs.
Richard H. Thomas, Robert H. Cruickshank
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Revision of the Fedrizziidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Fedrizzioidea)

Zootaxa, 2007
The Fedrizziidae are the most diverse group of mites associated with passalid beetles in Australia. Herein, I re-diagnose the family, genera and species, and describe ten new species from Australia, Indonesia and Thailand: Fedrizzia abradoalves sp. nov., F. gilloglyi sp. nov., F. parvipilus sp. nov., Neofedrizzia bunyas sp. nov., N. gordoni sp. nov., N.
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The Gnathosoma of the Celaenopsina, (Acarina-Mesostigmata)

American Midland Naturalist, 1955
In the present paper the gnathosomal structures of Euzercon latus (Banks), 1909 and Passalacarus sylvestris Pearse and Wharton, 1936, representatives of the families Euzerconidae and Diplogyniidae, respectively, are described and figured. The two species are found on passalid beetles and were collected from the Duke University Forest, Durham, N. C. The
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Gynandromorphism in a phytoseiid mite (Acari: Mesostigmata)

International Journal of Acarology, 2007
Abstract A gynandromorph specimen of Metaseiulus arbor eus (Chant) is pictured and described.
James A. McMurtry, Edgar D. Show
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Revision of the Australian Ameroseiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata)

Invertebrate Systematics, 1997
The Australian fauna of Ameroseiidae (Acarina) is revised. Six genera and 11 species are recognised, including four new species: Brontispalaelaps marianneae, sp. nov., from the wings of a moth in Queensland, Epicriopsis walteri, sp. nov., from forest litter in New South Wales and Queensland, Hattena floricola, sp. nov., from Correa flowers in Victoria,
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Uropodina species from Vietnam (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Zootaxa, 2011
Sixteen species of Uropodina were found in samples of soil mites from Vietnam, in the Institute of Soil Biology of the Biology Centre AS CR (Èesk Budìjovice, Czech Republic) and the Soil Zoology Collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest, Hungary).
Josef Starý, Jenő Kontschán
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Oriental mesostigmata (Acari)

Oriental Insects, 1978
Abstract Five species of Rhinonyssinae (Tinaminyssus 1, Ptilonyssus 4), seven of Spintumicidae (Spinturnix 1, Meristaspis 3, Ancystropus 3) and one of Illattisociinae (Proctolaelaps I) are recorded from Malaysia. Four species of Spintumicidae (Spinturnix 1, Meristaspis 3—including 2 of those from Malaysia) are recorded from Papua New Guinea. Almost all
M. Nadchatram, R. Domrow
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