Crotoniidae

Crotoniidae are a family of mites of the Holosomata group that may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then re-evolved it. This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.

==Species== Crotonia Thorell, 1876 Crotonia alluaudi (Berlese, 1916) — Africa Crotonia americana (Berlese, 1901) — South America Crotonia ardala Luxton, 1987 — Australia Crotonia blaszaki Szywilewska, Olszanowski & Norton, 2005 — Chile Crotonia borbora Luxton, 1987 — Australia Crotonia brassicae Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena Crotonia brevicornuta (Wallwork, 1966) — Antarctica Crotonia camelus (Berlese, 1910) — New Caledonia Crotonia capistrata Luxton, 1987 — Australia Crotonia caudalis (Hammer, 1966) — New Zealand Crotonia cervicorna Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand Crotonia chiloensis Wallwork, 1977 — Chile Crotonia cophinaria (Michael, 1908) — Argentina, New Zealand Crotonia cupulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand Crotonia dicella Colloff, 1990 — Natal, South Africa Crotonia ecphyla Colloff, 1990 — Natal Crotonia flagellata (Balogh & Csiszar, 1963) — South America Crotonia jethurmerae Lee, 1985 — South Australia Crotonia lanceolata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena Crotonia longibulbula Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand Crotonia lyrata Colloff, 1990 — Natal Crotonia marlenae Olszanowski, 1997 — Serra do Mar, Parati area; Brazil Crotonia nukuhivae (Jacot, 1934) — Pacific islands Crotonia obtecta (Cambridge, 1875) — Chile, New Zealand Crotonia ovata Olszanowski, 2000 — Hellyer River gorge: Tasmania Crotonia pauropelor Colloff, 1990 — Natal Crotonia perforata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena Crotonia pulchra (Beck, 1962) — Neotropics Crotonia pyemaireneri Colloff, 2009 — Tasmania Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand Crotonia rothschildi (Berlese, 1916) — Ethiopia Crotonia tasmaniana Colloff, 2009 — Tasmania Crotonia tryjanowskii Olszanowski, 2000 — New England N.P.: New South Wales Crotonia tuberculata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand Crotonia unguifera (Michael, 1908) New Zealand Holonothrus Wallwork, 1963 Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia Holonothrus concavus Wallwork, 1966 — Antarctica Holonothrus foliatus Wallwork, 1963 — Antarctica Holonothrus gracilis Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park: New Zealand Holonothrus mitis Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia Holonothrus naskreckii Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park; New Zealand Holonothrus nortoni Olszanowski, 1999 — Dominica, Trois Pitons: Leeward Islands Holonothrus novaecaledoniae Olszanowski, 1997 — Mount Paine: New Caledonia Holonothrus papua Balogh & Balogh, 1986 — Papua New Guinea Holonothrus pulcher Hammer, 1966 — New Zealand Holonothrus robustus Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia Holonothrus venetiolanus Olszanowski, 1999 — Mérida, Laguna Negra: Venezuela; neotropical Holonothrus virungensis Norton & Olszanowski, 1989 — Congo: Kinshasa