Hydryphantidae Piersig, 1896

Gerecke, Reinhard, 2020, The early derivative water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, superfamilies Eylaoidea, Hydrachnoidea and Hydryphantoidea) of Madagascar, Zootaxa 4727 (1), pp. 1-77 : 30

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scientific name	Hydryphantidae Piersig, 1896
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This family is probably a para- or polyphyletic assemblage of early derivative clades ( Dabert et al. 2016). Included genera are highly diverse in morphology and behaviour, most of them are restricted to the northern hemisphere. For more than 100 years, Hydryphantidae was known in Madagascar only from stagnant-water dwelling hydryphantines ( Hydryphantes incertus Koenike, 1893 ), diplodontines ( Diplodontus schaubi Koenike, 1893 and D. opimus Koenike, 1896 ), and mamersines ( Mamersa testudinata Koenike, 1898 ) ( Gerecke 2004a). In a revision of the African species of Diplodontus , a genus previously known only from species living in ponds and lakes, Gerecke (2004) described two Madagascan species adapted to running waters.

References

Dabert, M., Proctor, H. & Dabert, J. (2016) Higher-level molecular phylogeny of the water mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 101, 75 - 90. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2016.05.004

Gerecke, R. (2004 a) The water mites of Madagascar (Acari: Hydrachnidia): a revised list completed by original material conserved at the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Zoosystema, 26 (3), 393 - 418.

Koenike, F. (1898) Hydrachniden-Fauna von Madagaskar und Nossi-Be. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 21 (2), 295 - 435.