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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Suborder Brachypylina

slow moving mite - Gymnodamaeus Mystery Mite small one - Adoristes Unknown Mite SBBG-SCL-TIC_000650 - Scapheremaeus SBBG-SCL-TIC_000650 - Scapheremaeus Acari - Scapheremaeus Neoliodidae sp. mite?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Subclass Acari (Mites and Ticks)
Superorder Acariformes
Order Oribatida (Oribatids)
Suborder Brachypylina
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Circumdehiscentiae Grandjean 1954(1)
Explanation of Names
Brachypylina Hull 1918
Numbers
>7,700 described spp. in ~1,100 genera of >130 families and 25 superfamilies worldwide(1)
Works Cited
1.Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Schatz H., Behan-Pelletier V.M., O'Connor B.M., Norton R.A. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 141–148.