Opilioacaridae

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Opilioacaridae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Opilioacarus segmentatus.png
Opilioacarus segmentatus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Superorder: Parasitiformes
Order: Opilioacarida
Superfamily: Opilioacaroidea
Johnston, 1968
Family: Opilioacaridae
With, 1902
Synonyms[1]
  • Notostigmata
  • Onychopalpida
  • Opilioacariformes

Opilioacaridae is the sole family of mites in the order Opilioacarida, made up of about 13 genera.[2][3][1] The mites of this family are rare, large mites, and are widely considered primitive, as they retain six pairs of eyes, and abdominal segmentation.[4] They have been historically been considered separate from other mites belonging to Acariformes and Parasitiformes, but are now generally considered a subgroup of Parasitiformes based on molecular phylogenetics.[5]

The first member of the Opilioacarida to be discovered was the Algerian species , which was described by Carl Johannes With in 1902, followed by the Sicilian and from Aden, both in 1904.[6] Two fossil specimens are known, one of which was discovered in Baltic amber from the Eocene,[7] while the other one was discovered in the Burmese amber from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), tentatively assigned to the living genus Opilioacarus.[8]

Genera[]

These 13 genera belong to the family Opilioacaridae:

  • Hammen, 1966
  • Vázquez, Araújo & Feres, 2014
  • Vázquez, Araújo & Feres, 2015
  • Vázquez & Klompen, 2009
  • Das & Bastawade, 2007
  • Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
  • Opilioacarus With, 1902
  • Naudo, 1963
  • Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
  • Coineau & Hammen, 1979
  • Hammen, 1977
  • Leclerc, 1989
  • Leclerc, 1989

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Opilioacaridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  2. ^ Beaulieu, Frédéric (2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Superorder Parasitiformes: In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. ISSN 1175-5326.
  3. ^ De Araújo, M. S.; Palma, A. D.; Feres, R. J. F. (2020). "Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes)". Zootaxa. 4895 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2.
  4. ^ J. A. Dunlop & G. Alberti (2008). "The affinities of mites and ticks: a review" (PDF). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 46 (1): 1–18. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.496.5455. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2007.00429.x.
  5. ^ Vázquez, Maria Magdalena; Ávila Herrera, Ivalú Macarena; Just, Pavel; Reyes Lerma, Azucena Claudia; Chatzaki, Maria; Heller, Tim Lukas; Král, Jiří (2021-09-30). "A new opilioacarid species (Parasitiformes: Opilioacarida) from Crete (Greece) with notes on its karyotype". Acarologia. 61 (3): 548–563. doi:10.24349/acarologia/20214449.
  6. ^ Mark S. Harvey (2002). "The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders?" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 30 (2): 357–372. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0357:TNCWDW]2.0.CO;2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07.
  7. ^ Jason A. Dunlop; Jörg Wunderlich & George O. Poinar Jr. (2003). "The first fossil opilioacariform mite (Acari: Opilioacariformes) and the first Baltic amber camel spider (Solifugae)". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 94 (3): 261–273. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000663.
  8. ^ Jason A. Dunlop & Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi (2014). "An opilioacarid mite in Cretaceous Burmese amber". Naturwissenschaften. 101 (9): 759–763. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1212-0. PMID 25027588.

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