Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Parasitiformes
Ordo: Opilioacarida
Familia: Opilioacaridae
Synonyms (1): Neocaridae
Genera (12): Adenacarus – Amazonacarus – Caribeacarus – Indiacarus – Neocarus – Opilioacarus – Paracarus – Panchaetes – Phalangiacarus – Salfacarus – Siamacarus – Vanderhammenacarus
Name
Opilioacaridae With, 1902 or Redikorzev, 1937
Type genus: Opilioacarus With, 1903
References
Beaulieu, F. et al. 2011: Superorder Parasitiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011: Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa, 3148: 123–128. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7 (online edition) PDF
Vázquez, M.M.; De Araújo. M.S.; Feres, R.J.F. 2014: A new genus and two new species of Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) from Amazonia, Brazil with a key to world genera. Zootaxa 3814(2): 151–176. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.2.1 Reference page.
Links
Australian Faunal Directory
BHL bibliography
Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist [no records of genera (3): Caribeacarus – Indiacarus – Neocarus
]
EoL [no records of genera (3): Caribeacarus – Indiacarus – Neocarus
]
Klompen, H. (coordinator): Opilioacaridae Species Listing in Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog [no records of genera (2): Caribeacarus – Indiacarus
]
Opilioacaridae is the sole family of mites in the order Opilioacarida, made up of about 13 genera.[2][3][1] The mites of this family are rare, large mites, and are widely considered primitive, as they retain six pairs of eyes, and abdominal segmentation.[4] They have been historically been considered separate from other mites belonging to Acariformes and Parasitiformes, but are now generally considered a subgroup of Parasitiformes based on molecular phylogenetics.[5]
The first member of the Opilioacarida to be discovered was the Algerian species Opilioacarus segmentatus, which was described by Carl Johannes With in 1902, followed by the Sicilian Eucarus italicus and Eucarus arabicus from Aden, both in 1904.[6] Two fossil specimens are known, one of which was discovered in Baltic amber from the Eocene,[7] while the other one was discovered in the Burmese amber from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), tentatively assigned to the living genus Opilioacarus.[8]
Genera
These 13 genera belong to the family Opilioacaridae:
Adenacarus Hammen, 1966
Amazonacarus Vázquez, Araújo & Feres, 2014
Brasilacarus Vázquez, Araújo & Feres, 2015
Caribeacarus Vázquez & Klompen, 2009
Indiacarus Das & Bastawade, 2007
Neocarus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
Opilioacarus With, 1902
Panchaetes Naudo, 1963
Paracarus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
Phalangiacarus Coineau & Hammen, 1979
Salfacarus Hammen, 1977
Siamacarus Leclerc, 1989
Vanderhammenacarus Leclerc, 1989
References
"Opilioacaridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
Beaulieu, Frédéric (2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Superorder Parasitiformes: In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. ISSN 1175-5326.
De Araújo, M. S.; Palma, A. D.; Feres, R. J. F. (2020). "Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes)". Zootaxa. 4895 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2.
J. A. Dunlop & G. Alberti (2008). "The affinities of mites and ticks: a review" (PDF). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 46 (1): 1–18. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.496.5455. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2007.00429.x.
Vázquez, Maria Magdalena; Ávila Herrera, Ivalú Macarena; Just, Pavel; Reyes Lerma, Azucena Claudia; Chatzaki, Maria; Heller, Tim Lukas; Král, Jiří (2021-09-30). "A new opilioacarid species (Parasitiformes: Opilioacarida) from Crete (Greece) with notes on its karyotype". Acarologia. 61 (3): 548–563. doi:10.24349/acarologia/20214449.
Mark S. Harvey (2002). "The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders?" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 30 (2): 357–372. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0357:TNCWDW]2.0.CO;2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07.
Jason A. Dunlop; Jörg Wunderlich & George O. Poinar Jr. (2003). "The first fossil opilioacariform mite (Acari: Opilioacariformes) and the first Baltic amber camel spider (Solifugae)". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 94 (3): 261–273. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000663.
Jason A. Dunlop & Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi (2014). "An opilioacarid mite in Cretaceous Burmese amber". Naturwissenschaften. 101 (9): 759–763. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1212-0. PMID 25027588.
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