Oripodoidea

Oripodoidea Temporal range:
Peloribates
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Oribatida
Suborder:	Brachypylina
Superfamily:	Oripodoidea Jacot, 1925

Oripodoidea is a superfamily of oribatids in the order Oribatida. There are about 19 families and at least 1,300 described species in Oripodoidea.

Families

These 19 families belong to the superfamily Oripodoidea:

• Caloppiidae Balogh, 1960
• Drymobatidae J. & P. Balogh, 1984
• Haplozetidae Grandjean, 1936
• Hemileiidae J. & P. Balogh, 1984
• Liebstadiidae J. & P. Balogh, 1984
• Maudheimiidae J. & P. Balogh, 1984
• Mochlozetidae Grandjean, 1960
• Nasobatidae Balogh, 1972
• Neotrichozetidae Balogh, 1965
• Nesozetidae J. & P. Balogh, 1984
• Oribatulidae Thor, 1929
• Oripodidae Jacot, 1925
• Parapirnodidae Aoki & Ohkubo, 1974
• Pirnodidae Grandjean, 1956
• Protoribatidae J. & P. Balogh, 1984
• Pseudoppiidae Mahunka, 1975
• Scheloribatidae Jacot, 1935
• Symbioribatidae Aoki, 1966
• Tubulozetidae P. Balogh, 1989

Further reading

• Marshall, V. G.; Reeves, R. M.; Norton, R. A. (1987). "Catalogue of the Oribatida (Acari) of continental United States and Canada". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 119: i–418. doi:10.4039/entm119139fv.
• Pepato, A. R.; Klimov, P. B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.
• Krantz, G. W.; Walter, D. E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
• Halliday, R. B.; O'connor, O'B. M.; Baker, A. S. (2000). "Global diversity of mites". In Raven, P. H. (ed.). Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy Press. pp. 192–203. doi:10.17226/6142. ISBN 978-0-309-06555-9.

External links

• Media related to Oripodoidea at Wikimedia Commons