Sarcoptiformes

{{Short description|Order of mites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Trouessartia_capens.jpg

| image_alt = Female and male "Trouessartia capens"

| image_caption = Female and male Trouessartia capens

| taxon = Sarcoptiformes

| authority = Reuter, 1909 {{cite journal |author=Reuter, E. |author-link=Enzio Reuter |year=1909 |title=Zur Morphologie und Ontogenie der acariden mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Pendiculopsis graminum (E. Reut.) |journal=Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=1–287 |url=https://archive.org/stream/zurmorphologyund00reut#page/246/mode/2up}}{{cite journal |author=P. L. Robertson |year=1969 |title=A revision of the genus Tyrophagus, with a discussion on its taxonomic position in the Acarina |journal=Australian Journal of Zoology |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=146–182 |doi=10.1071/ZO9590146}}

| subdivision_ranks = Suborders

| subdivision_ref = {{cite web|author1=|title=Sarcoptiformes|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=83137&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock|website=NCBI taxonomy|publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information|access-date=14 January 2019|location=Bethesda, MD|language=en|format=HTML}}

| subdivision =

• Astigmata
• Endeostigmata
• Oribatida (beetle mites)

| synonyms =

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The Sarcoptiformes are an order of mites comprising over 15,000 described species in around 230 families. Previously it was divided into two suborders, Oribatida and Astigmatina, but Oribatida has been promoted to an order, and Astigmatina is now an unranked taxon.{{cite book |author=David Evans Walter |chapter=Hidden in plain sight: mites in the canopy |pages=224–241 |editor=Margaret Lowman |editor2=H. Bruce Rinker |title=Forest Canopies |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F471I0uJv-8C&pg=PA229 |year=2004 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=978-0-12-457553-0}}{{cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Zhi-Qiang|last2=Hong|first2=Xiao-Yue|last3=Fan|first3=Qing-Hai|last4=Xin|first4=Jie-Liu|date=2010|title=Xin Jie-Liu Centenary: Progress in Chinese Acarology|journal=Zoosymposia|volume=4|issn=1178-9905}}{{cite book|editor-last1=Krantz|editor-first1=G.W.|editor-last2=Walter|editor-first2=D.E.|date=2009|chapter=Astigmatina. Chapter 16|title=A Manual of Acarology 3rd Edition|publisher=Texas Tech. University Press}}