Winterschmidtiidae Explained

Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.

Ecology

The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous, though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous.^[1]

For some specific examples, species of Winterschmidtia and Parawinterschmidtia are associated with beetles living under bark (especially bark beetles), Vespacarus and Kennethiella with eumenine wasps and Vidia with Megachile bees. The genus Psylloglyphus (which is in Oulenziinae^[2]) is associated with fleas.^[3]

Genera

These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:^[4]

• Acalvolia Fain, 1971
• Allocalvolia Fain & Rack, 1987
• Calvolia Oudemans, 1911
• Congovidia Fain & Elsen, in Fain, 1971
• Crabrovidia Zakhvatkin, 1941
• Czenspinskia Oudemans, 1927
• Ensliniella Vitzthum, 1925
• Gambacarus Mahunka, 1975
• Kennethiella Cooreman, 1954
• Kurosaia Okabe & OConnor, 2002
• Macroharpa Mostafa, 1970
• Monobiacarus Baker & Cunliffe, 1960
• Neocalvolia Hughes, 1970
• Neosuidasia Ranganath & Channabasa, 1983
• Neottiglyphus Volgin, 1974
• Oulenzia Radford, 1950
• Oulenziella Fan et al., 2015
• Parawinterschmidtia Khaustov, 2000
• Procalvolia Fain, 1971
• Riemia Oudemans, 1925
• Saproglyphus Berlese, 1890
• Sphexicozela Mahunka, 1970
• Trypetacarus Fain, 1971
• Vespacarus Baker, 1960
• Vidia Oudemans, 1905
• Winterschmidtia Oudemans, 1923
• Zethacarus Mostafa, 1971
• Zethovidia Mostafa, 1970

Further reading

• Feather mites of the world (Acarina, Astigmata): the supraspecific taxa. 1996. Gaud . Jean. Atyeo . Warren T.. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Sciences Zoologiques.
• Book: A Manual of Acarology. 2009. Krantz . G.W.. Walter . D.E.. Texas Tech University Press. 9780896726208.
• Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment. 2015. Pepato . A.R.. Klimov . P.B.. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15. 178. 10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. free. 4557820. 26330076.

Notes and References

1. Barbosa . Marina Ferraz de Camargo . Moraes . Gilberto José de . 2021-06-01 . Mites of the family Winterschmidtiidae (Acari: Sarcoptiformes: Astigmatina) from agricultural habitats in Brazil, with description of a new species and a key to species reported . Systematic and Applied Acarology . 1040–1054 . 10.11158/saa.26.6.3 . 235676259 . 2056-6069. subscription .
2. Fan . Qing-Hai . Faraji . Farid . 2022-03-30 . Mites of the genus Oulenziella Fan and Zhang (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae), with description of a new species from Kenya . Acarologia . 62 . 1 . 148–160 . 10.24349/i2bo-zeic. free .
3. Hastriter . Michael . E. Bush . Sarah . 2014-05-13 . Description of Medwayella independencia (Siphonaptera, Stivaliidae), a new species of flea from Mindanao Island, the Philippines and their phoretic mites, and miscellaneous flea records from the Malay Archipelago . ZooKeys . 408 . 107–123 . 10.3897/zookeys.408.7479 . 24899840 . 1313-2970. 4042829 . 2014ZooK..408..107H . free .
4. Book: Beron, Petar . Acarorum Catalogus IX. Acariformes, Acaridida, Schizoglyphoidea (Schizoglyphidae), Histiostomatoidea (Histiostomatidae, Guanolichidae), Canestrinioidea (Canestriniidae, Chetochelacaridae, Lophonotacaridae, Heterocoptidae), Hemisarcoptoidea (Chaetodactylidae, Hyadesiidae, Algophagidae, Hemisarcoptidae, Carpoglyphidae, Winterschmidtiidae) . Advanced Books . 2021 . 10.3897/ab.e68613 . 978-619-248-058-5 . free .