Oxidae

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: Lebertioidea

Familia: Oxidae
Genera (2): Africoxus – Oxus
Name

Oxidae Viets, 1926
Type genus: Oxus Kramer, 1877
Stem: Ox-

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
Smit, H. 2002: Two new water mite species from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa, 61: 1–10. 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.

Oxidae is a family of prostigs in the order Trombidiformes. There are at least 4 genera and about 15 described species in Oxidae.[1][2][3][4][5]
Genera

Flabellifrontipoda
Frontipoda Koenike, 1891
Gnaphiscus Koenike, 1898
Oxus Kramer, 1877

References

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

Further reading

Breene, R.G.; Dean, D. Allen; Edwards, G.B.; Hebert, Blain; Levi, Herbert W.; Manning, Gail (2003). Common Names of Arachnids. Vol. Fifth Edition. American Tarantula Society. ISBN 1-929427-11-5.
Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing.
Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Vol. 3rd Edition. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.