Lemurnyssidae, Fain, 1957

Bochkov, Andre V., Zabludovskaya, Svetlana & Oconnor, Barry M., 2008, Phylogeny and systematics of the endoparasitic astigmatid mites (Acari: Sarcoptiformes) of mammals: families Gastronyssidae, Lemurnyssidae, and Pneumocoptidae, Zootaxa 1951 (1), pp. 1-152 : 7

Family Lemurnyssidae

The monobasic genus Lemurnyssus Fain, 1957 , was described by Fain (1957a) who created for this genus the new family Lemurnyssidae . A single species of the family, Lemurnyssus galagoensis Fain, 1957 , parasitizes the nasal passages of African galagids ( Primates : Galagidae ). Fain (1957a) considered this new family as closely related to the superfamily Listrophoroidea , a taxon including the astigmatid fur mites of mammals. Later on, Fain (1959e) described the second genus of the family, Mortelmansia Fain, 1959 , with two species parasitizing South American primates of the family Cebidae . The last species, Mortelmansia duboisi Fain, 1964 , was described from the South American marmoset, Callithrix jacchus (L.) ( Callitrichidae ) ( Fain 1964c). Krantz (1970, 1978) placed this family in the superfamily Psoroptoidea .