Hydryphantoidea

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
Hypordo: Parasitengona
Superfamilia: Hydryphantoidea
Familiae (9): Ctenothyadidae – Hydrodromidae – Hydryphantidae – Malgasacaridae – Rhynchohydracaridae – Teratothyadidae – Thermacaridae – Zelandothyadidae – ?Eupatrellidae

Name

Hydryphantoidea Piersig, 1896

References

Di Sabatino, A.; Gerecke, R.; Gledhill, T.; Smit, H. 2009: On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea. Zootaxa 2266: 1–34. Abstract & excerpt

Hydryphantoidea is a superfamily of mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 6 families and more than 250 described species in Hydryphantoidea.[1][2][3]
Families

These six families belong to the superfamily Hydryphantoidea:

Ctenothyadidae
Hydrodromidae
Hydryphantidae
Rhynchohydracaridae
Teratothyadidae
Thermacaridae

References

"Hydryphantoidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
"Hydryphantoidea Superfamily Information". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-02-18.

Zhang, Z.-Q.; Fan, Q.-H.; Pesic, V.; Smit, H.; et al. (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 129. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.24.

Further reading

Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
Pepato, A.R.; Klimov, P.B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.
Skoracki, M.; Zabludovskaya, S.; Bochkov, A.V. (2012). "A review of Prostigmata (Acariformes: Trombidiformes) permanently associated with birds". Acarina. 20: 67–107.