Rhizoglyphinae

Female Sancassania berlesei, copyright Tom Cameron.

Belongs within: Acaridae.
Contains: Rhizoglyphini.

The Rhizoglyphinae are an ecologically diverse group of astigmatan mites, commonly associated with moist temporary habitats. With the exceptions of the basal genera Acotyledon and Viedebanttia, many rhizoglyphines exhibit male polymorphism with major males developing modifications for fighting. The genus Sancassania includes species found in fungal fruiting bodies, root crops and human habitats; other species live in association with insects such as scarab beetles or ground-nesting bees (OConnor 2001). A small group of morphologically distinctive genera previously classified as a separate family Ewingiidae, including Ewingia, Askinasia, Hoogstraalacarus and Kanekobia, are found as commensals on crustaceans (OConnor 2009).

Characters (from Baker & Wharton 1952): Inner propodosomal setae shorter than outer; legs stout, the setae in many cases being modified as stout spines; microsense and macrosense setae arising from same base.

<==Rhizoglyphinae [Caloglyphidae, Ewingiidae]
    |  i. s.: Ewingia O01
    |         Askinasia O01
    |         Hoogstraalacarus O01
    |         Kanekobia potamona O01, O09
    |--Viedebanttia O01
    |    `--V. schmitzi O01
    |--Acotyledon Oudemans 1902 O01, H98 [Acotyledonini]
    |    |--A. mykytowyczi Womersley 1955 H98
    |    `--A. paradoxa O01
    `--+--Cosmoglyphus Oudemans 1932 O01, H98
       |    |--C. angustus Fain & Friend 1984
       |    |    |--C. a. angustus H98
       |    |    `--C. a. distinctus Fain & Friend 1984 H98
       |    `--C. oudemansi Zakhvatkin 1937 [=Caloglyphus oudemansi] H98
       `--+--Rhizoglyphini O01
          `--+--Ctenocolletacarus Fain 1984 O01, H98
             |    |--C. brevirostris Fain 1984 H98
             |    |--C. grandior Fain 1984 H98
             |    `--C. longirostris Fain 1984 H98 [=Sancassania (Ctenocolletacarus) longirostris H18]
             `--Sancassania Oudemans 1916 O01, H98 [incl. Caloglyphus Berlese 1923 H98; Caloglyphini]
                  |--‘Caloglyphus’ anomalus D01
                  |--S. berlesei (Michael 1903) [=Tyroglyphus berlesei, Caloglyphus berlesei] H98
                  |--S. boharti O01
                  |--‘Caloglyphus’ michaeli MH04
                  |--‘Caloglyphus’ moniezi K91
                  |--S. mycophaga (Megnin 1874) ED01, C-RSV-S88 [=Caloglyphus mycophagus DAA91]
                  |--S. polyphyllae [=Caloglyphus polyphyllae] K07
                  |--‘Caloglyphus’ rhizoglyphoides QA91
                  |--‘Caloglyphus’ rodionovi (Zachvatkin 1937) EU96
                  `--‘Caloglyphus’ rodriguezi K91

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

Baker, E. W., & G. W. Wharton. 1952. An Introduction to Acarology. The MacMillan Company: New York.

[C-RSV-S88] Corpuz-Raros, L. A., G. C. Sabio & M. Velasco-Soriano. 1988. Mites associated with stored products, poultry houses and house dust in the Philippines. Philippine Entomologist 7 (3): 311–321.

[D01] Desch, C. E. 2001. Anatomy and ultrastructure of the female reproductive system of Sarcoptes scabiei (Acari: Sarcoptidae). 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. 203–212. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

[DAA91] Desch, C. E., J. R. H. Andrews & L. G. Arlian. 1991. The digestive system of Sarcoptes scabiei (L.): light and electron microscope study. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 271–279. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[ED01] Ehrnsberger, R., & J. Dabert. 2001. Population dynamics of acarid mites in two different types of poultry raising systems in Germany. 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. 576–582. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

[EU96] Eitminavichute, I., & D. Umbrasiene. 1996. The succession of soil mites during the process of sewage sludge degradation. In: Mitchell, R., D. J. Horn, G. R. Needham & W. C. Welbourn (eds) Acarology IX vol. 1. Proceedings pp. 599–601. Ohio Biological Survey: Columbus (Ohio).

[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[H18] Houston, T. 2018. A Guide to Native Bees of Australia. CSIRO Publishing.

[K91] Kuwahara, Y. 1991. Pheromone studies on astigmatid mites—alarm, aggregation and sex. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 43–52. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[K07] Kuwahara, Y. 2007. Recent advances of mite chemical ecology multifunctional pheromone communication system in Astigmata. In: Morales-Malacara, J. B., V. M. Behan-Pelletier, E. Ueckermann, T. M. Pérez, E. G. Estrada-Venegas & M. Badii (eds) Acarology XI: Proceedings of the International Congress pp. 665–673. Instituto de Biología and Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Acarología: México.

[MH04] Maraun, M., M. Heethoff, K. Schneider, S. Scheu, G. Weigmann, J. Cianciolo, R. H. Thomas & R. A. Norton. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari): evidence for multiple radiations of parthenogenetic lineages. Experimental and Applied Acarology 33 (3): 183–201.

[O01] OConnor, B. M. 2001. Historical ecology of the Acaridae (Acari): phylogenetic evidence for host and habitat shifts. 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. 76–82. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

[O09] OConnor, B. M. 2009. Cohort Astigmatina. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3^rd ed. pp. 565–657. Texas Tech University Press.

[QA91] Quintero, M. T., & H. A. Acevedo. 1991. Mites of fermented liquid foods in Mexico. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 611–614. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

Last updated: 3 March 2019.