Hygrobatidae

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: Hygrobatoidea

Familia: Hygrobatidae
Genera: Aciculacarus – Aspidiobates – Atractides – Australiobates – Declinobates – Decussobates – Diamphidaxona – Gondwanabates – Hopkinsobates – Hygrobates – Ioannibates – Iranobates – Kritaturus – Notohygrobates – Procorticacarus – Pseudoaustraliobates – Rhynchaustrobates – Scutobates – Tasmanobates – Zelandobatella – Zelandobates
Name

Hygrobatidae Koch, 1842

References

Koch, C.L. 1842. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Neunter Band, pp. 57-108, Zehnter Band, pp. 1-36. Reference page.
Esen, Y. et al. 2013: New water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Turkey. ZooKeys, 361: 15–25. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.361.6389 Reference page.
Harvey, M.S., 1989: A review of the water mite genus Australorivacarus K.O. Viets (Chelicerata : Actinedida : Hygrobatidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3 (2): 155 - 162. Abstract: DOI: 10.1071/IT9890155
Pešić, V.M. 2015: A new species of the water mite genus Hygrobates Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from the ancient Lake Ohrid. Zootaxa 3926(2): 287–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.9. Reference page.
Pešić, V.; Smit, H.; Asadi, M.; Etemadi, I. 2010: New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from southern Iran, with description of one new genus and three new species. Zootaxa, 2783: 21–34. Preview
Pešić, V.M., Smit, H. & Mary-Sasal, N. 2015: Third contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 3964(4): 445–459. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.4.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Smit, H. 2009: New Australian hygrobatids (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae), with the description of two new genera and three new species. Zootaxa, 2114: 61–68. Abstract & excerpt.
Smit, H., 2011: New species of water mites from New Guinea (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Halacaridae). Acarologia 51 (3): 321–345. Abstract and full article: DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20112017.
Smit, H. 2015. The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 4033(4): 567–583. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.4.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Smit, H. 2018. A new species of the genus Decussobates Cook, 1988 from Argentina, with the first description of the male (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 4471(1): 182–184. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.1.10 Paywall Reference page.
Smit, H. & Clavier, S. 2019. A new taxonomic placement for Scutobates Cook, 1966, with the description of a new species from French Guiana (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 4543(4): 587–589. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.7 Paywall Reference page.
Smith, I.M. & Cook, D.R. 2006. North American species of Diamphidaxona (Acari: Hydrachnida: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 1279: 1–44. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Tuzovskij, P.V. & Stolbov, V. 2016. Description of a new hygrobatid genus from Chile (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 4161(4): 579–585. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.4.10. Reference page.

Hygrobatidae is a family of prostigs in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 9 genera and at least 40 described species in Hygrobatidae.[1][2][3][4][5]
Genera

Aciculacarus
Aspidiobates
Atractides C. L. Koch, 1837
Australiobates
Hopkinsobates
Hygrobates C. L. Koch, 1837
Notohygrobates
Zelandobatella
Zelandobates

References

"Hygrobatidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
"Hygrobatidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
"Hygrobatidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
"Browse Hygrobatidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.

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. BioMed Central. 15: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.