Eupodoidea
{{Short description|Superfamily of mites}}
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Eupodoidea is a superfamily of mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 8 families and more than 160 described species in Eupodoidea.
{{Cite web| title=Eupodoidea Report
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| access-date=2019-04-13
{{Cite web| title=Eupodoidea Superfamily Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/91400
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Description
Eupodoids are soft-bodied mites that are red, red and black, white or yellow in colour. They can be recognised by the small epivertical lobe on the propodosoma and rhagidial organs on the tarsi of the first two leg pairs.{{Cite journal |last1=Strandtmann |first1=R. W. |last2=Goff |first2=M. L. |date=1978 |title=The Eupodoidea of Hawaii (Acarina: Prostigmata) |url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/19(3)-121.pdf |journal=Pacific Insects |volume=19 |pages=121–143}}
Ecology
Eupodoids occur in temperate grasslands, deserts (both hot and cold), alpine regions and polar regions (including tundra). Less commonly, they can be found in marshes and heavily wooded areas (including rainforests).
The superfamily includes fungivorous, phytophagous and predatory species.{{cite journal | vauthors = Khaustov AA | title = A new genus and species in the mite family Eupodidae (Acari, Eupodoidea) from Crimea | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 422 | pages = 11–22 | date = 2014-06-30 | pmid = 25061386 | pmc = 4109443 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.422.7802 | doi-access = free }} For example, Cocceupodidae and Eupodidae are fungivorous,{{Cite web |title=Family Cocceupodidae |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/893223 |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=bugguide.net}}{{Cite web |title=Family Eupodidae |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/263357 |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=bugguide.net}} Penthaleidae are phytophagous (and include some crop pests){{Cite web |title=Family Penthaleidae - Earth Mites |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/263374 |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=bugguide.net}} and Rhagidiidae are fast-moving predators of small arthropods.{{Cite web |title=Family Rhagidiidae |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/93805 |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=bugguide.net}}File:Rhagidiidae.jpg
Families
These eight families belong to the superfamily Eupodoidea:
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Further reading
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- {{Cite journal | vauthors = Halliday RB, O'Connor BK, Baker AS | title = Global diversity of mites | date = 2000 | veditors = Raven PH | journal = Nature and Human Society—the Quest for a Sustainable World | publisher = National Academy Press | pages = 192–203 | doi = 10.17226/6142 | isbn = 978-0-309-06555-9 }}
- {{Cite book | title = A Manual of Acarology | date = 2009 | veditors = Krantz GW, Walter DE | publisher = Texas Tech University Press | isbn = 9780896726208 }}
- {{cite journal | vauthors = Pepato AR, Klimov PB | title = Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites - evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 15 | pages = 178 | date = September 2015 | pmid = 26330076 | pmc = 4557820 | doi = 10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2 | doi-access = free }}
- {{Cite book | vauthors = Zhang Z, Fan Q, Pesic V, Smit H, Bochkov A, Khaustov A, Baker A, Wohltmann A, Wen T, Amrine J, Beron P, Lin J, Gabrys G, Husband R | display-authors = 6 | chapter = Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909 | veditors = Zhang ZQ | title = Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness | date = 2011 | url = http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/acarology/zhang/pub/Trombidiformes_zt03148p138.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3148 | pages = 129–138 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.24}}
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