Hydrachnidae Leach, 1815

Gerecke, Reinhard, 2020, The early derivative water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, superfamilies Eylaoidea, Hydrachnoidea and Hydryphantoidea) of Madagascar, Zootaxa 4727 (1), pp. 1-77 : 11

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scientific name	Hydrachnidae Leach, 1815
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Family Hydrachnidae Leach, 1815 View in CoL View at ENA

This is a rather homogenous, monotypic family. Larvae of the genus Hydrachna Müller, 1776 parasitize aquatic beetles and bugs ( Davids 1973, Biesiadka & Cichocka 1994, Zawal 2003); adults were observed feeding on insect eggs (e.g. Stevens & Greven 1999), sucking from macrophyte tissues was also reported ( Davids et al. 2007, Olom- ski pers. comm.). The family has a rather isolated position within Hydrachnidia, due to their unique mouth part morphology and oviposition behaviour (females provided with an ovipositor, oviposition in plant tissues–Böttger 1972).

References

Biesiadka, E. & Cichocka, M. (1994) Water mites (Hydracarina) parasites of water bugs of the group Nepomorpha. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 63, 357 - 368.

Davids, C. (1973) The water mite Hydrachna conjecta KOENIKE, 1895 (Acari, Hydrachnellae) bionomics and relation to species of Corixidae (Hemiptera). Netherlands Journal of Zoology, 23, 363 - 429. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 002829673 X 00012

Davids, C., Di Sabatino, A., Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T. & Smit, H. (2007) Acari, Hydrachnidia. In: Gerecke, R. (Ed.), Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 7 (2 - 1), pp. 241 - 388. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 662 - 55958 - 1 _ 7

Stevens, M. & Greven, H. (1999) Food and feeding behaviour of deutonymphs and adults of the water mite Hydrachna skorikowi (Acari: Hydrachnellae), with notes on the structure of their mouthparts. In: Bruin, J., Van der Geest, L. P. S. & Sabelis, M. W. (Eds.), Ecology and Evolution of the Acari. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, pp. 381 - 387. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 017 - 1343 - 6 _ 28

Zawal, A. (2003) Parasitism of water mite larvae (Hydrachnellae) of the genus Hydrachna on water beetles in Poland. Acarologia, 42, 361 - 370.