Astigmatina

Astigmatina is a cohort of mites in the subclass Acari, mites and ticks. Astigmata has been ranked as an order or suborder in the past, but was lowered to the cohort Astigmatina of the supercohort Desmonomatides (synonym Desmonomata) in the suborder Oribatida (formerly Cryptostigmata), of the order Sarcoptiformes. Astigmatina is now made up of the two groups Acaridia and Psoroptidia, which have been suborders of the order Astigmata in the past. Astigmatina contains about 10 superfamilies and 76 families under Acaridia and Psoroptidia.[1][2]

Astigmatina
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
Otodectes cyanotis
(Psoroptidia: Psoroptidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Arachnida
Subclass:
Acari
Order:
Sarcoptiformes
(unranked):
Astigmatina

Canestrini, 1891
Superfamilies

Acaridia

Acaroidea
Canestrinioidea
Glycyphagoidea
Hemisarcoptoidea
Histiostomatoidea
Hypoderoidea
Schizoglyphoidea

Psoroptidia

Analgoidea
Freyanoidea
Psoroptoidea
Pterolichoidea
Pyroglyphoidea
Diversity
c. 76 families
> 1,000 genera
> 3,400 species

Astigmatina belongs to the Sarcoptiformes, which contains the "biting" Acariformes. Many species are parasites of vertebrates. Most notorious among these are the Psoroptidia, which contain such notable taxa as feather mites and Sarcoptes scabiei.

Taxonomy

Astigmatina contains about 11 superfamilies[3] with over thousands of genera[4] as follows:

Acaridia (> 400 genera, > 1300 species)
  • Schizoglyphoidea (2 genera, 2 species)
    • Schizoglyphidae
  • Histiostomatoidea (c. 60 genera, > 200 species)
  • Canestrinioidea (> 100 genera, > 300 species)
    • Chetochelacaridae
    • Lophonotacaridae
    • Canestriniidae
    • Heterocoptidae
  • Hemisarcoptoidea (50 genera, > 200 species)
  • Glycyphagoidea (> 70 genera, > 150 species)
  • Acaroidea (> 120 genera, > 500 species)
  • Hypoderoidea
    • Hypoderidae
Psoroptidia (> 600 genera, > 2,000 species)
  • Pterolichoidea (> 200 genera, > 500 species)
    • Oconnoriidae
    • Ptiloxenidae
    • Pterolichidae (> 100 genera, c. 300 species)
    • Cheylabididae
    • Ochrolichidae
    • Gabuciniidae
    • Falculiferidae
    • Eustathiidae
    • Crypturoptidae
    • Thoracosathesidae
    • Rectijanuidae
    • Ascouracaridae
    • Syringobiidae
    • Kiwilichidae
    • Kramerellidae
  • Freyanoidea (> 30 genera, c. 50 species)
  • Analgoidea (> 200 genera, c. 700 species)
  • Pyroglyphoidea (26 genera, > 50 species)
  • Psoroptoidea (c. 160 genera, > 600 species)
  • incertae sedis (16 genera, 17 species)
    • Ptyssalgidae
      • Ptyssalges major (Trouessart, 1887)
    • Psoralgidae

incertae sedis

Troglotacaridae

  • Troglotacarus hauseri Fain, 1977

References
  1. Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Hong, Xiao-Yue; Fan, Qing-Hai; Xin, Jie-Liu (2010). "Xin Jie-Liu Centenary: Progress in Chinese Acarology". Zoosymposia. Magnolia Press. 4. ISSN 1178-9905.
  2. Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). "Astigmatina. Chapter 16". A Manual of Acarology 3rd Edition. Texas Tech. University Press.
  3. HEINRICH SCHATZ; VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER; BARRY M. OCONNOR & ROY A. NORTON (2011). "Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (PDF). Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. pp. 141–148. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. Hallan, Joel (2005-03-07). "Astigmata". Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-18.


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