Lohmanniidae

Dorsal (left) and ventral views of Nesiacarus australis, from Balogh & Balogh (1992) vol. 2.

Belongs within: Hypochthonioidea.
Contains: Haplacarus, Paulianacarus, Annectacarus, Torpacarus, Meristacarus, Papillacarus, Mixacarus (Mixacarus), Lohmannia (Lohmannia).

The Lohmanniidae are a family of enarthronote oribatids in which the notogaster has becomed fused into a single dorsal shield. Broad ventral keels on the femora function in protection when the legs are retracted into ventrolateral pedofossae. Lohmanniids are found mostly in tropical regions, where they are important decomposers of higher-plant remains (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). Sexual reproduction is as yet unknown in lohmanniids.

The type genus Lohmannia is cosmopolitan in distribution and characterised by a transverse suture on the genital plates, separated anal and adanal plates, a broad preanal plate and one or two pairs of anal setae (Balogh & Balogh 1992).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Notogaster without transverse sutures; anogenital region of macropyline type (genital and anal plates not separated by a ventral plate); preanal plate usually present (if exceptionally absent, then either body somewhat laterally flattened or sensillus pectinate); legs with five free segments, tibia and genua of similar length and shape.

<==Lohmanniidae [Afissurida, Lohmannini, Lohmannioidea]
    |--Nesiacarus Csiszár 1961 PL17, S04
    |    |--*N. reticulatus Csiszár 1961 S04
    |    |--N. australis Balogh & Mahunka 1981 S04
    |    |--N. completus Hu & Wang 1989 S04
    |    |--N. granulatus Hammer 1972 S04
    |    |--N. philippinensis Mahunka 1990 S94
    |    |--N. schusteri Schatz 1994 S04
    |    `--N. sinensis Hu & Wang 1988 S04
    `--+--Mixacarus Balogh 1958 PL17, S04
       |    |--M. (Mixacarus) S04
       |    `--M. (Phyllolohmannia Balogh & Balogh 1987) S04
       |         |--M. (*P.) hammani Balogh 1961 S04
       |         |--M. (P.) foliifer Golosova 1984 S04
       |         `--M. (P.) yinae (Hu & Aoki 1993) [=Phyllolohmannia yinae] S04
       `--Lohmannia Michael 1898 PL17, S04
            |  i. s.: L. murcioides Berl. 1896 BB92
            |--L. (Lohmannia) S04
            `--L. (Carolohmannia Norton, Metz & Sharma 1978) S04
                 `--L. (*C.) carolensis Norton, Metz & Sharma 1978 S04

Lohmanniidae incertae sedis:
  Ululohmannia Mahunka 1987 [=Austracarus Mahunka 1984 nec Lawrence 1949 nec Balogh & Balogh 1983] S04
    `--*U. cristata (Mahunka 1984) [=Austracarus cristatus] S04
  Strinatacarus Mahunka 1977 S04
    `--*S. aelleni Mahunka 1977 S04
  Dendracarus Balogh 1961 S04
    `--*D. pulchellus Balogh 1961 S04
  Reptacarus Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1995 S04
    `--*R. sagatus Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1995 S04
  Meristolohmannia Balogh & Mahunka 1966 S04
    |--*M. meristacaroides Balogh & Mahunka 1966 S04
    `--M. chinensis (Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1960) [=Meristacarus chinensis] S04
  Ozacarus Colloff & Halliday 1998 [=Austracarus Balogh & Balogh 1983 non Lawrence 1949] S04
    |--*O. reductus (Balogh & Balogh 1983) S04 [=*Austracarus reductus CH98]
    `--O. tahitiensis (Hammer 1972) [=Meristacarus tahitiensis] S04
  Xenolohmannia Balogh & Mahunka 1969 [Xenolohmanniidae] S04
    |--*X. discrepans Balogh & Mahunka 1969 S04
    |--X. capillata Balogh & Mahunka 1978 S04
    `--X. comosa Balogh 1984 S04
  Lepidacarus Csiszár 1961 S04
    |--*L. ornatissimus Csiszár 1961 S04
    |    |--L. o. ornatissimus S04
    |    `--L. o. rehmabia Haq, Mubarak & Ramani 1983 S04
    `--L. ennarpi Haq & Ramani 1997 S04
  Thamnacarus Grandjean 1950 [incl. Asiacarus Krivolutsky 1971] S04
    |--*T. deserticola (Grandjean 1934) [=Lohmannia deserticola] S04
    |--T. arnoldii (Bashkirova 1958) [=Trhypochthonius arnoldii] S04
    |--T. elongatus (Krivolutsky 1971) [=Asiacarus elongatus; incl. T. moribei Aoki 1971] S04
    |--T. longisetosus Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1978 S04
    `--T. smirnovi Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1978 S04
  Cryptacarus Grandjean 1950 S04
    |--*C. promecus Grandjean 1950 [incl. Lohmannia valdemorica Mihelčič 1956] S04
    |--C. dendrisetosus Bhattacharya, Bhaduri & Raychaudhuri 1974 S04
    |--C. grandjeani Clement & Haq 1990 H01
    |--C. schauenbergi Mahunka 1977 S04
    `--C. tuberculatus Csiszár 1961 S04
  Heptacarus Piffl 1963 (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--*H. notoneotrichus Piffl 1963 S04
    |--H. encantadae Schatz 1994 S04
    |--H. graminosus (McDaniel, Norton & Bolen 1979) [=Pseudocryptacarus graminosus] S04
    |--H. hirsutus Wallwork 1964 S04
    |--H. neotropicus Mahunka 1985 S04
    |--H. ornatus Bayoumi & Al-Khalifa 1985 S04
    |--H. piffli Mahunka 1977 S04
    |--H. plumosus (Hammer 1973) [=Neotrichacarus plumosus] S04
    |--H. reticulatus Mahunka 1977 S04
    `--H. supertrichus Piffl 1966 S94
  Haplacarus S04
  Javacarus Balogh 1961 [incl. Tongacarus Hammer 1973] S04
    |--*J. kuehnelti Balogh 1961 S04
    |--J. foliatus Hammer 1972 [=J. kuehnelti foliatus] S04
    |--J. granulatus Csiszár 1961 S04
    |--J. inexpectatus Balogh 1962 S04
    |--J. jocelynae Judson 1991 S04
    |--J. marginatus (Hammer 1973) (n. d.) [=Tongacarus marginatus] S04
    |--J. porosus Hammer 1960 S04
    `--J. reticulatus Sengbusch 1982 S04
  Euryacarus Woolley 1966 S04
    |--*E. petalus Woolley 1966 S04, S94 [=Javacarus (*Euryacarus) petalus S04]
    `--E. pilosus Mahunka 1982 S94 [=Javacarus (Euryacarus) pilosus S04]
  Paulianacarus S04
  Annectacarus S04
  Torpacarus S04
  Meristacarus S04
  Vepracarus Aoki 1965 S04
    |--*V. ogawai Aoki 1965 CH98, S04 [=Papillacarus ogawai S04]
    `--V. incompletus Mahunka 1985 S94 [=Papillacarus incompletus S04]
  Papillacarus S04

Heptacarus Piffl 1963 [incl. Neotrichacarus Hammer 1973, Pseudocryptacarus McDaniel, Norton & Bolen 1979] S04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BB92] Balogh, J., & P. Balogh. 1992. The Oribatid Mites Genera of the World vol. 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum: Budapest.

[CH98] Colloff, M. J., & R. B. Halliday. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A catalogue of Australian genera and species. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[H01] Haq, M. A. 2001. Potential oribatid mite vectors of cestode parasites in Kerala, India. In: Halliday, R. B., D. E. Walter, H. C. Proctor, R. A. Norton & M. J. Colloff (eds) Acarology: Proceedings of the 10^th International Congress pp. 569–575. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

Norton, R. A., & V. M. Behan-Pelletier. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3rd ed. pp. 430–564. Texas Tech University Press.

[PL17] Pachl, P., A. C. Lindl, A. Krause, S. Scheu, I. Schaefer & M. Maraun. 2017. The tropics as an ancient cradle of oribatid mite diversity. Acarologia 57 (2): 309–322.

[S94] Schatz, H. 1994. Lohmanniidae (Acari: Oribatida) from the Galapagos Islands, the Cocos Island, and Central America. Acarologia 35 (3): 267–287.

[S04] Subías, L. S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758–2002). Graellsia 60 (número extraordinario): 3–305.

Last updated: 12 January 2019.