HETEROCOPTIDAE Fain, 1967

Haitlinger, Ryszard, 2024, Arthropods associated with world passalid beetles with particular reference to the Diarthrophallidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Journal of Natural History 58 (29 - 32), pp. 1178-1259 : 1228

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13773866

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HETEROCOPTIDAE Fain, 1967
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HETEROCOPTIDAE Fain, 1967 View in CoL

This small family comprises 29 species belonging to 13 genera. Only one species, Amarucoptes busannae Haitlinger, 2001 , has been found on an unidentified Passalidae ( Haitlinger 2001b; Beron 2021) ( Tables 2 View Table 2 , 4 and 7 View Table 7 ). Passalidae are accidental hosts for Heterocoptidae .

Beron P. 2021. Acarorum Catalogus IX Acariformes Acaridida Schizoglyphoidea (Schizoglyphidae) Histiostomatoidea (Histiostomatidae, Guanolichidae) Canestrinioidea (Canestriniidae, Chetochelacaridae, Lophonotacaridae, Heterocoptidae) Hemisarcoptoidea (Chaetodactylidae, Hyadesiidae, Algophagidae, Hemisarcoptidae, Carpoglyphidae, Winterschmidtiidae). Pensoft, Natural Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 396 pp.

Haitlinger R. 2001 b. Four new diarthrophallid mites (Acari, Mesostigmata, Diarthrophallidae) from tropical Africa. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum (Entomology). 10 - 11: 169 - 177.