Frontipoda

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lebertioidea

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: Anystina Hypordo: Parasitengona Superfamilia: Lebertioidea

Familia: Oxidae
Genus: Frontipoda
Species: F. minutipalpis – F. mouensis – F. neocaledonica – F. purpurea

Name

Frontipoda Koenike, 1891

• Type species: Hydrachna musculus Müller, 1776

References

• Di Sabatino, A.; Gerecke, R.; Gledhill, T.; Smit, H. 2009: On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea. Zootaxa, 2266: 1–34. Abstract & excerpt
• Smit, H. 2002: Two new water mite species from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa, 61: 1–10. Abstract & excerpt
• Smit, H. 2002: Water mites from New Caledonia (Acari: Hydrachnidia). In: Najt, J.; Grandcolas, P. (eds.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 5. Systématique et endémisme en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 187: 161–206. ISBN 2-85653-536-4 ISSN: 1243-4442
• Smit, H. 2009. New and rare water mites from New Caledonia (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 198: 391-419. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.