Family Eupodidae

Classification · Identification · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Reddish legs with white stripe on black body

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Subclass Acari (Mites and Ticks)

Superorder Acariformes

Order Trombidiformes

Suborder Prostigmata (Prostigs)

Infraorder Eupodina

Superfamily Eupodoidea

Family Eupodidae

Identification

Large hind legs, small chelicerae

Food

Fungivores

Remarks

key to world genera of Eupodidae and what is now Cocceupodidae (1)

Works Cited

1.	A new genus and species in the mite family Eupodidae (Acari, Eupodoidea) from Crimea Alexander A. Khaustov. 2014. ZooKeys 422: 11–22.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 4 April, 2009 - 4:50pm
Additional contributions by Edward Ruden
Last updated 8 December, 2021 - 4:14pm

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