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Winterschmidtiidae
Sign in to saveWinterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderSarcoptiformes
- FamilyWinterschmidtiidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 104
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Winterschmidtiidae
- Collections
- OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ACAROLOGY LABORATORY, COLUMBUS, OH (OSAL), QM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Netherlands
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Encyclopedic overview
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Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.
== Ecology == The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous, though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Winterschmidtiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.