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Order of mites
Specimens of
Neocarus proteus
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 (1.5 to 2.5 mm) mites, and are widely considered
primitive , as they retain six pairs of
eyes , and abdominal segmentation.
[4] They have 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
Opilioacarus segmentatus , which was described by
Carl Johannes With in 1902, followed by the
Sicilian
Eucarus italicus and
Eucarus arabicus 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 ) around 99 million years old, tentatively assigned to the living genus
Opilioacarus .
[8]
Members of the group live in semi-arid and tropical environments in
leaf-litter , under rocks and in caves. Their diet is known to include arthropod carcasses, fungal spores, and pollen.
[9]
Genera
These 13 genera belong to the family Opilioacaridae:
Adenacarus Hammen, 1966
Amazonacarus Vázquez, Araújo & Feres, 2014
Brasilacarus Vázquez, Araújo & Feres, 2015
Caribeacarus Vázquez & Klompen, 2009
Indiacarus Das & Bastawade, 2007
Neocarus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
Opilioacarus With, 1902
Panchaetes Naudo, 1963
Paracarus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
Phalangiacarus Coineau & Hammen, 1979
Salfacarus Hammen, 1977
Siamacarus Leclerc, 1989
Vanderhammenacarus Leclerc, 1989
References
^
a
b
"Opilioacaridae" . GBIF . Retrieved 2021-10-31 .
^
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 .
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.23 .
ISBN
978-1-86977-849-1 .
ISSN
1175-5326 .
^
De Araújo, M. S.; Palma, A. D.; Feres, R. J. F. (2020).
"Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes)" . Zootaxa . 4895 (3): zootaxa.4895.3.2.
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2 .
PMID
33756891 .
S2CID
230560703 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
S2CID
236270478 .
^ 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 .
S2CID
59047074 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07.
^ 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 .
S2CID
85646963 .
^ 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 .
S2CID
253637881 .
^ Moraza, María L.; Prieto, Carlos E.; Balanzategui, Iñaki (2021-03-30).
"A new species of the genus Opilioacarus With, 1902 (Acari: Opilioacarida) for the Iberian Peninsula" . Acarologia . 61 (1): 128–147.
doi :
10.24349/acarologia/20214422 .
S2CID
233786254 .
External links
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