Euptyctima

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: Oribatida
Subordo: Mixonomata
Infraordo: Euptyctima
Superfamiliae: Euphthiracaroidea - Phthiracaroidea - ?Mesoplophoroidea

[list of superfamiliae after Subías (April 2009), but Mesoplophoroidea belongs in Hypochthonioidea according to Norton & Behan-Pelletier (2009: 440)]
Name

Euptyctima
References
cited sources

Norton, R.A.; Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2009: Chapter fifteen. Suborder Oribatida. Pp. 430-564 in: Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E. (eds) A manual of acarology. Third edition. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock Texas.

Additional references

Fuangarworn, M.; Lekprayoon, C. 2011: New species of oribatid mites in the families Synichotritiidae and Phthiracaridae from Thailand, with a checklist of Thai Euptyctima (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaroidea, Phthiracaroidea). Zootaxa, 3106: 24–41. Preview
Niedbała, W. 2000: The ptyctimous mites fauna of the Oriental and Australian regions and their centres of origin (Acari: Oribatida). Genus (Wroclaw), supplement: 1–493.
Niedbała, W. 2006: Ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) of South Africa. Annales zoologici, Warszawa, 56(supplement 1): 1–99.
Niedbała, W. 2006: Supplement to the knowledge of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Australian Region. Annales zoologici, Warszawa, 56(supplement 1): 99–156. DOI: 10.3161/000345406778553364
Niedbała, W. 2007: New records of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the Nearctic Region. Canadian entomologist, 139: 587–590. DOI: 10.4039/n06-866
Niedbała, W. 2009: Ptyctimous mites of Southern Hemisphere (Acari: Oribatida). Genus 20(3): 557–562. full article (PDF) Reference page.
Niedbała, W. 2012: An updated study of ptyctimous mite fauna (Acari: Oribatida) of the Australasian Region with a description of thirteen new species. Acarologia 52(2): 183–228. DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122049 Open access. Reference page.
Niedbała, W.; Ermilov, S.G. 2011: New and little known species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Ethiopia. Zootaxa, 2739: 60–68. Preview
Niedbała, W.; Penttinen, R. 2007: New species of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida: Oribotritiidae, Steganacaridae) with some new records from Australasian Region. Annales zoologici, 57(3): 517–532.
Subías, L.S. 2004: Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002). Graellsia, 60(extra. 1): 3–305.

Links

Subías, L.S.: LISTADO SISTEMÁTICO, SINONÍMICO Y BIOGEOGRÁFICO DE LOS ÁCAROS ORIBÁTIDOS (ACARIFORMES: ORIBATIDA) DEL MUNDO (Excepto fósiles) Version: April 2009

Vernacular names
English: box mites, ptyctimous mites