The Acaridae are a family of mites. Common forms include some mold mites, for example the grain mite. Genera in the family include:
Histiostomatidae is a family of astigmatid mites and branches basically in a phylogenetic tree of the Astigmata.
The Macronyssidae are a family of parasitic mites in the order Mesostigmata.
Acotyledon is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Histiogaster is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Thyreophagus is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Viedebanttia is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Cerophagopsis is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Neohorstia is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Rhinoseius is a genus of mites in the family Ascidae.
Otopheidomenidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
Rhinonyssidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
Halarachnidae is a small family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
Syringophilidae is a family of mites, containing the following genera:
Myobiidae is a family of mites, containing the following genera:
Alycidae is a family of mites, or endeostigs, in the suborder Endeostigmata. There are at least 6 genera in Alycidae.
Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata. There are about six genera in Winterschmidtiidae.
Caeculidae is a family of mites in the order Trombidiformes, the only family of the superfamily Caeculoidea. There are about 6 genera and more than 30 described species in Caeculidae, found in North America, Australia, and southern Africa. The oldest records of the family are from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber, belonging to the extant genus Procaeculus.
Sennertia is a genus of mites in the Chaetodactylidae family. There are more than 70 species. Some of these mites are parasites or commensals of bees, but the presence in some bees of specialized structures for carrying mites (acarinarium) indicates the mutualistic nature of the relationship of some species. Most species of the genus Sennertia settle on adult bees as heteromorphic deutonymphs, but the species Sennertia vaga has no deutonymph and settle on adult bees in the eating adult stages. Reproduction and feeding occurs during resettlement. Most species occur on small carpenter bees (Ceratina) and large carpenter bees (Xylocopa) of the family Apidae. A few species are associated with Centris (Paracentris) in the Neotropics.
Fritz S. Lukoschus (1919–1987) was a German zoologist studying the systematics and biology of the Acari. Over the course of his career he published over 200 scientific articles, describing more than 90 species new for science. Lukoschus was born in April 1919 in Grabsten in April 1919. He obtained his PhD in 1946 from the University of Göttingen on a thesis on the development of castes in the European honey bee. After working at the University of Göttingen until 1953, he worked at several institutions before being recruited by the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1962 where he stayed until his retirement in 1984. Lukoschus died suddenly in August 1987. The genera Lukoschus and Lukoschuscoptes were named after him.
