Tetranychoidea

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Tetranychoidea
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
Bryobia praetiosa Koch.jpg
Spider mite, Bryobia praetiosa (Tetranychidae)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Trombidiformes
Suborder: Prostigmata
Infraorder: Eleutherengona
Superfamily: Tetranychoidea
Donnadieu, 1876

Tetranychoidea is a superfamily of mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 5 families and more than 2,200 described species in Tetranychoidea. [1] [2]

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Description

Mites of this family have the cheliceral bases fused into a structure called a stylophore, which can be moved independently of the subcapitulum and can be retracted into the prodorsum. The movable digits of the chelicerae resemble stylets, being greatly elongated, and their bases are strongly recurved within the stylophore. There is a pair of well-developed peritremes embedded anteriorly on the prodorsum, ending in protruberant enlargements. The true claws of the legs possess tenent hairs. Males possess aedeagi which are used to directly transfer sperm to females. [3]

The individual families can be recognised as follows:

Ecology

Tetranychoidea are herbivores. Some species of Tetranychidae, Tenuipalpidae and Tuckerellidae are pests of agricultural and ornamental plants. [3] [10]

Families

These five families belong to the superfamily Tetranychoidea:

References

  1. "Tetranychoidea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 Meyer, Magdalena K.P. Smith; Ueckermann, E.A. (1997). "A review of some species of the families Allochaetophoridae, Linotetranidae and Tuckerellidae (Acari : Tetranychoidea)" . International Journal of Acarology. 23 (2): 67–92. doi:10.1080/01647959708683103. ISSN   0164-7954.
  3. "Tetranychoidea: Allochaetophoridae". idtools.org. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
  4. Bagheri, Mohammad; Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad; Kamali, Karim; Khanjani, Mohammad; Saboori, Alireza; Lotfollahi, Parisa (2008-10-24). "A new species of Linotetranus (Acari : Prostigmata: Linotetranidae) from Iran" . Zootaxa. 1914 (1): 65–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1914.1.6. ISSN   1175-5334.
  5. "Tetranychoidea: Tenuipalpidae". idtools.org. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
  6. "Tetranychoidea: Tetranychidae, Bryobiinae". idtools.org. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
  7. "Tetranychoidea: Tetranychidae, Tetranychinae". idtools.org. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
  8. "Tetranychoidea: Tuckerellidae". idtools.org. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
  9. Barbar, Ziad; Parker, Bruce; Auger, Philippe (2022-03-30). "Tenuipalpidae and Tetranychidae (Trombidiformes, Tetranychoidea) from Syria with a description of a new species of Bryobia". Acarologia. 62 (1): 58–67. doi: 10.24349/6gnq-wcbz .

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