Se elabora por primera vez un listado mundial de ácaros oribátidos y en él se relacionan
sistemáticamente las cerca de 9.000 especies (y subespecies) válidas hasta ahora …

Existing literature on marine associated Ameronothroidea is reviewed and recapitulated.
Although these littoral oribatid mites strongly resemble typical terrestrial mites, they have …

In the traditional biogeographic model, the Galápagos Islands appeared a few million years
ago in a sea where no other islands existed and were colonized from areas outside the …

As important representatives of Oribatida (Acari), ptyctimous mites comprise more than 1400
described species in 40 genera and subgenera, with nearly cosmopolitan distribution except …

The fauna of ptyctimous mites of the Neotropical Region is described and analysed. The
number of species known from this region is 305, including 20 Arthroptyctima and 285 …

Aim To establish the extent to which archipelagos follow the same species–area relationship
as their constituent islands and to explore the factors that may explain departures from the …

Forest canopies support diverse assemblages of free-living mites. Recent studies suggest
mite species complementarity between canopy and terrestrial soils is as high as 80–90 …

The resistance to fresh water and seawater in three intertidal oribatid mite species from
Bermuda, Alismobates inexpectatus, Fortuynia atlantica and Carinozetes bermudensis, was …

The new genus Neoctenogalumna gen. nov. with Ctenogalumna moresonensis
Engelbrecht, 1972 as a type species and the new subgenus Neoctenogalumna …

The primitive ptyctimous mites are one of the most important groups of oribatid mites (Acari),
with almost cosmopolitan distribution, except for the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. These …