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| Family: | Veigaiidae Oudemans, 1939
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| 4 genera, c. 60 species | |
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Veigaiaidae | |
Veigaiidae is a family of mites belonging to the superorder Parasitiformes. However they are not parasitic but free-living and predatory and are found in soil and decaying organic matter. Some species are specialists of rocky shorelines. Members of this family can be distinguished by a hyaline appendage on the tarsus of the pedipalp.