Winterschmidtiidae

{{Short description|Family of mites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Saproglyphus on Osmia-aquilonaria BMOC 96-0510-156.jpg

| image_caption = Saproglyphus

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| taxon = Winterschmidtiidae

| authority = Oudemans, 1923

| type_genus = Winterschmidtia

| type_genus_authority = Oudemans, 1923

| synonyms = *Saproglyphidae Oudemans, 1924

  • Czenspinskiidae Oudemans, 1927
  • Oulenziidae Oudemans, 1928
  • Calvoliinae Turk & Turk, 1957

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Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.

Ecology

The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous, though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous.{{Cite journal |last1=Barbosa |first1=Marina Ferraz de Camargo |last2=Moraes |first2=Gilberto José de |date=2021-06-01 |title=Mites of the family Winterschmidtiidae (Acari: Sarcoptiformes: Astigmatina) from agricultural habitats in Brazil, with description of a new species and a key to species reported |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/saa/article/view/saa.26.6.3 |journal=Systematic and Applied Acarology |pages=1040–1054 |doi=10.11158/saa.26.6.3 |s2cid=235676259 |issn=2056-6069|url-access=subscription }}

For some specific examples, species of Winterschmidtia and Parawinterschmidtia are associated with beetles living under bark (especially bark beetles), Vespacarus and Kennethiella with eumenine wasps and Vidia with Megachile bees. The genus Psylloglyphus (which is in Oulenziinae{{Cite journal |last1=Fan |first1=Qing-Hai |last2=Faraji |first2=Farid |date=2022-03-30 |title=Mites of the genus Oulenziella Fan and Zhang (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae), with description of a new species from Kenya |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03552254/file/Acarologia-2022-62-148-160.pdf |journal=Acarologia |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=148–160 |doi=10.24349/i2bo-zeic|doi-access=free }}) is associated with fleas.{{Cite journal |last1=Hastriter |first1=Michael |last2=E. Bush |first2=Sarah |date=2014-05-13 |title=Description of Medwayella independencia (Siphonaptera, Stivaliidae), a new species of flea from Mindanao Island, the Philippines and their phoretic mites, and miscellaneous flea records from the Malay Archipelago |journal=ZooKeys |issue=408 |pages=107–123 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.408.7479 |pmid=24899840 |issn=1313-2970|pmc=4042829 |bibcode=2014ZooK..408..107H |doi-access=free }}

Genera

These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:{{Cite book |last=Beron |first=Petar |title=Acarorum Catalogus IX. Acariformes, Acaridida, Schizoglyphoidea (Schizoglyphidae), Histiostomatoidea (Histiostomatidae, Guanolichidae), Canestrinioidea (Canestriniidae, Chetochelacaridae, Lophonotacaridae, Heterocoptidae), Hemisarcoptoidea (Chaetodactylidae, Hyadesiidae, Algophagidae, Hemisarcoptidae, Carpoglyphidae, Winterschmidtiidae) |publisher=Advanced Books |year=2021 |doi=10.3897/ab.e68613 |isbn=978-619-248-058-5 |doi-access=free }}

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References

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{{Cite web| title=Winterschmidtiidae

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2835

| website=GBIF

| accessdate=2019-02-18

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{{Cite web| title=Winterschmidtiidae Family Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/378661

| website=bugguide.net

| accessdate=2019-02-18

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite journal

| title = Feather mites of the world (Acarina, Astigmata): the supraspecific taxa

| date = 1996

| last1 = Gaud | first1 = Jean

| last2 = Atyeo | first2 = Warren T.

| journal = Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Sciences Zoologiques

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  • {{Cite book

| title = A Manual of Acarology

| date = 2009

| editor-last1 = Krantz | editor-first1 = G.W.

| editor-last2 = Walter | editor-first2 = D.E.

| publisher = Texas Tech University Press

| isbn = 9780896726208

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  • {{Cite journal

| title = Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment

| date = 2015

| last1 = Pepato | first1 = A.R.

| last2 = Klimov | first2 = P.B.

| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology

| volume = 15| pages = 178

| doi = 10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2| doi-access = free

| pmc = 4557820

| pmid = 26330076

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