Eleutherengona

Taxonavigation

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: Eleutherengona
Superfamiliae: Cheyletoidea - Heterocheyloidea - Pyemotoidea - Pygmephoroidea - Raphignathoidea - Tarsocheyloidea - Tarsonemoidea - Tetranychoidea
[list of superfamiliae after Beron (2008: 17) except Iolinoidea]

• not listed by Beron (2008): Cloacaroidea - Eriophyoidea - Myobioidea - Unassigned

References

cited sources

• Beron, P. 2008: Acarorum catalogus I. Acariformes: Calyptostomatoidea (Calyptostomatidae), Erythraeoidea (Smarididae, Erythraeidae). Pensoft Publishers and the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Additional references

• Bochkov, A.V. 2002: Classification and phylogeny of mites of the superfamily Cheyletoidea (Acari: Prostigmata). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 81: 488–513.
• Bochkov, A.V.; OConnor, B.M.; Wauthy, G. 2008: Phylogenetic position of the mite family Myobiidae within the infraorder Eleutherengona (Acariformes) and origins of parasitism in eleutherengone mites. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 247: 15–45. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2006.12.003
• Filimonova, S.A. 2011: Comparative analyses of the internal anatomy and functional morphology of the Eleutherengona (Acari, Trombidiformes). Acarina, 19(1): 3–34.
• Pritchard, A.E. 1956: A new superfamily of trombidiform mites with the description of a new family, genus and species (Acarina: Iolinoidea: Iolinidae: Iolina nana). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 49(3): 204–206.