Mesostigmata

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Taxonomy

updated 2025

Diagnostic characters

• Laelapid mites with very large pili dentilus with inflated bases

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Ecology and distribution

Commonly vertebrate nest associated species or in stored products.

References

• Casanueva 1993Casanueva 1993:
  Casanueva ME. 1993. Phylogenetic studies of the free-living arthropod associated Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Gayana Zoologica 57: 21–46.
• Domrow 1966aDomrow 1966a:
  Domrow R. 1966a. Some laelapid mites of syndactylous marsupials. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 90: 164-175.
• Domrow 1972Domrow 1972:
  Domrow R. 1972. Eight Australian species of Andreacarus Radford and Haemolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Dermanyssidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 105-113.
• Domrow 1988Domrow 1988:
  Domrow R. 1988. Acari Mesostigmata parasitic on Australian vertebrates: An annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 817-948.
• Evans and Till 1979Evans and Till 1979:
  Evans EO and 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 and Bregatova 1977Gilyarov and Bregatova 1977:
  Gilyarov MS and Bregatova NG, eds. 1977. Handbook for the identification of soil-inhabiting mites, Mesostigmata. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Petrograd.
• Karg 1993Karg 1993:
  Karg W. 1993. Acari (Acarina), Milben Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta) Cohors Gamasina Leach, Raubmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 59: 1-523.
• Krantz 1978Krantz 1978:
  Krantz GW. 1978. A manual of acarology [2nd ed.]. Oregon State University Book Stores, Corvallis.
• Krantz and Ainscough 1990Krantz and Ainscough 1990:
  Krantz GW and Ainscough B. 1990. Mesostigmata. pp. 583-665. In: Dindal DL, ed. Soil biology guide. John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane.