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| "Yellow mite", Lorryia formosa | |
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| Family: | Tydeidae Kramer, 1877
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| 30 genera, >320 species | |
Tydeidae is a family of acariform mites. As of 2016, it contained over 300 species in three subfamilies,[1] though more species have been discovered since then.[2]
These mites live in a wide range of habitats and there are predatory, fungivorous and scavenging species.
- ^ Silva, Guilherme Liberato Da; Metzelthin, Maicon Henrique; Silva, Onilda Santos Da; Ferla, Noeli Juarez (2016-07-04). "Catalogue of the mite family Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with the world key to the species". Zootaxa. 4135 (1): 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4135.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27395702.
- ^ "Tydeidae - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2022-12-08.