Caeculidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Acariformes
Ordo: Trombidiformes
Subordo: Prostigmata
Cohort: Anystina
Superfamilia: Caeculoidea

Familia: Caeculidae
Genera (7): Allocaeculus – Andocaeculus – Caeculus – Calocaeculus – Microcaeculus – Neocaeculus – Procaeculus
Name

Caeculidae Berlese, 1883

References

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Bernard, J., Lumley, L.M., Buck, M. & Cobb, T.P. 2020. A new species of rake-legged mite, Caeculus cassiopeiae (Prostigmata, Caeculidae), from Canada and a systematic analysis of its genus. ZooKeys, 926: 1–23. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.926.48741 Open access Reference page.
Franz, H. 1952: Revision der Caeculidae Berlese 1883 (Acari). Bonner zoologische Beiträge, 3(1-2): 91–124. PDF
Porta, A.O., Proud, D.N., Franchi, E., Porto, W., Epele, M.B. & Michalik, P. 2019. The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family. Pp 23–43 In Zhang, Z-Q., Pfingstl, T., Norton, R., Mironov, S.V. & Seeman, O.D. (eds.). Systematic acarology and palaeoacarology: a special volume in memory of Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk (1981–2019). Zootaxa 1–505. Reference page. Zootaxa 4647(1): 23–43. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5 Paywall Reference page.
Taylor, C.K.; Gunawardene, N.R.; Kinnear, A. 2013: A new species of Neocaeculus (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a checklist of world Caeculidae. Acarologia 53(4): 439-452. DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20132105 Reference page.

Caeculidae, also known as rake-legged mites, is a family of mites in the order Trombidiformes, the only family of the superfamily Caeculoidea. There are about 9 genera and about 100 described species in Caeculidae which occur world-wide.[2][3][4][5] The oldest records of the family are from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber, belonging to the extant genus Procaeculus.[6]
Genera

These six genera belong to the family Caeculidae:

Allocaeculus Franz, 1952
Andocaeculus Coineau, 1974
Caeculus Dufour, 1832
Calocaeculus Coineau, 1974
Microcaeculus Franz, 1952
Neocaeculus Coineau, 1967
Procaeculus Jacot 1936

References

Andrés O. Porta; Daniel N. Proud; Ezequiel Franchi; Willians Porto; María Bernarda Epele; Peter Michalik (2019). "The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family". Zootaxa. 4647 (1): 23–43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5.
"Caeculidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
"Caeculidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
"Caeculidae Family Information". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
Zhang, Z.Q.; Fan, Q.H.; Pesic, V.; Smit, H.; et al. (2011). "Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness, order trombidiformes reuter, 1909". Zootaxa. 3148: 129–138. ISSN 1175-5326.

Porta, Andrés O.; Proud, Daniel N.; Franchi, Ezequiel; Porto, Willians; Epele, María Bernarda; Michalik, Peter (2019-07-26). "The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family". Zootaxa. 4647 (1): 23–43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334.