Damaeidae
{{Short description|Family of mites}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Palaeogene|present}}
| image = Notaspis Corynopus (Hermann, 1804).png
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Belba corynopus
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Arachnida
| ordo = Oribatida
| superfamilia = Damaeoidea
| familia = Damaeidae
| familia_authority = Berlese, 1896
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
}}
Damaeidae is a family of mites.{{cite book|author=J. G. Rodriguez|title=Recent Advances in Acarology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xjDgBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA533|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-7554-3|page=533}} Alternative names for the family include Belbidae, and Belbodamaeidae or Hungarobelbidae.{{cite journal|author=Perez-Iñigo C. |date=1997|title=Acari: Oribatei, Gymnonota. In: Ramos, M. A., (Ed.)|journal=Fauna Iberica|volume=9|publisher=Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales|page=342}} They had been previously considered to be distinct families.{{cite web|author=Jan Mourek|url=https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/download/150006538/?lang=en|title=Systematics of oribatid mite families Damaeidae and Gymnodamaeidae (Acari: Oribatida), feeding ecology of selected oribatid species|date=May 2010|access-date=21 December 2016}}{{cite book|author1=Milan Daniel|author2=B. Rosický|title=Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of Acarology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjfsCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA77|date=14 November 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-94-010-2709-0|page=77}}
Species of the family are extant in Eurasia and Northern America.{{cite journal|title=A new species of the genus Epidamaeus (Acari, Oribatida, Damaeidae) from China|first1=Lixia|last1=Xie|first2=Maofa|last2=Yang|first3=Rong|last3=Huang|date=15 July 2011|journal=ZooKeys|issue=119|pages=29–36|doi=10.3897/zookeys.119.1629|pmid=21998515|pmc=3192423|doi-access=free}} Related species exist in New Zealand and South America.
Behaviour
Most species of the family live in plant litter, mosses, decaying woods and organic soil layers. The family is composed of fungivores. They have an important role in regulation of the density of fungi that is harmful for plants.
List of genera
The following genera are part of this family:{{cite web|title=Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist|url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/browse/tree/id/2368394|website=www.catalogueoflife.org|date=2011|access-date=21 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=54074|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217100000/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=54074|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 December 2005|title=Belbidae|website=Fauna Europaea|date=29 August 2013|access-date=21 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=54075|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217100024/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=54075|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 December 2005|title=Belbodamaeidae|website=Fauna Europaea|date=29 August 2013|access-date=21 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=15948|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217092159/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=15948|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 December 2005|title=Damaeidae|website=Fauna Europaea|date=29 August 2013|access-date=21 December 2016}}
{{Columns-list|colwidth=22em|
- Acanthobelba
- Allobelba
- Belba
- Belbodamaeus
- Damaeus
- Dameobelba
- Epidamaeus
- Hungarobelba
- Hypodamaeus
- Kunstidamaeus
- Metabelba
- Metabelbella
- Mirobelba
- Neobelba
- Nortonbelba
- Parabelbella
- Paradamaeus
- Parametabelba
- Porobelba
- Subbelba
- Spatiodamaeus
- Tectodamaeus{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
- Weigmannia{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
}}
References
{{Portal|Arthropods}}
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Further reading
- {{cite journal|author=S. G. Ermilov|url=https://acarina.utmn.ru/upload/iblock/074/Ermilov2010-1.pdf|title=MORPHOLOGY OF JUVENILE INSTARS OF METABELBA PAPILLIPES (ACARI, ORIBATIDA, DAMAEIDAE|date=2010|journal=Acarina|volume=18|number=2|pages=273–279}}
External links
{{Commons}}
{{Wikispecies|Damaeidae}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141013104445/https://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Damaeidae.txt Damaeidae Species Listing] in [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog] by Dr. Heinrich Schatz
- [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=733431#null Damaeidae Berlese, 1896] at ITIS
- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?lin=s&p=has_linkout&id=229775 Damaeidae] at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
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