Pterygosomatidae

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
Superfamilia: Pterygosomatoidea

Familia: Pterygosomatidae
Subfamiliae: Pimeliaphilinae - Pterygosomatinae

Overview of genera (15)

Bertrandiella – Bharatoliaphilus – Callopistiella – Cyclurobia – Geckobia – Geckobiella – Ixodiderma – Neopterygosoma – Pimeliaphiloides – Pimeliaphilus – Pterygosoma – Scaphothrix – Tequisistlana – Tequisistlana – Zonurobia
Name

Pterygosomatidae Oudemans, 1910

References

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Fajfer, M. 2013: Three new species of scale mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing Agama sankaranica (Sauria: Agamidae). Zootaxa 3700(2): 271–282. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.2.5 Reference page.
Fajfer, M. 2013: Two new species of scale mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing Agama agama (Sauria: Agamidae) from Kenya. Zootaxa 3745(2): 257–262. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.2.5 Reference page.
Fajfer, M. 2019. Systematics of reptile-associated scale mites of the genus Pterygosoma (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) derived from external morphology. Zootaxa 4603(3): 401–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.3.1 Paywall Reference page.
Fajfer, M.; Melnikov, D. 2014: New species and records of scale mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) from Arabian agamid lizards (Squamata: Agamidae). Zootaxa 3764(4): 401–417. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.4.1 Reference page.
Silva-de la Fuente, M.C., Paredes-León, R., Casanueva, M.E., Escobar-Huerta, G. & Moreno Salas, L. 2015. A new genus and species of pterygosomatid mite (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing Callopistes maculatus (Squamata: Teiidae) from Chile. Zootaxa 3972(1): 65–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.4 Preview (PDF). Reference page.

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

Geckobia
Pimeliaphilus

References

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