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Superfamily Eriophyoidea

galls on elm  - Aceria campestricola Black cherry fingergalls - 1 - Eriophyes cerasicrumena  Maple Bladdergall Mite? - Vasates quadripedes Pear leaf blister mite - Phytoptus  Maple Bladdergall Mite - Vasates quadripedes Ash Bead Gall Mite - Aceria fraxini Eriophyid female in situ with other gall contents, ventral - Eriophyes emarginatae - female Aceria triplacis Galls - Aceria triplacis
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 Eleutherengona
No Taxon (Raphignathina)
Superfamily Eriophyoidea
Explanation of Names
Eriophyoidea Nalepa, 1898
Remarks
3 families (1):
Family Phytoptidae Murray, 1877 (20 genera, 164 species)
Family Eriophyidae Nalepa, 1898 (274 genera, 3,790 species)
Family Diptilomiopidae Keifer, 1944 (63 genera, 450 species)

From A Manual of Acarology, 3rd Ed. By G.W. Krantz and D.E. Walter (2):
"Following Keifer (1975); Amrine and Stasny (1994): Lindquist and Amrine (1996); and Amrine, Stasny, and Flechtmann (2003), three families of Eriophyoidea are recognized here: (1) PHYTOPTIDAE (including the subfamilv Nalepellinae with tribes Nalepellini, Trisetacini, and Pentasetacini, all of which have been treated as separate families by some authors (e.g., Shevchenko, Bagnyuk. and Sukhareva 1991; Bagnyuk, Sukhareva, and Shevchenko 1997); (2) the ERIOPHYIDAE (including the subfamily Ashieldophyinae, which was originally proposed as a separate family by Mohanasundaram (1984)); and (3) the DIPTILOMIOPIDAE." (emphasis added).
Internet References
ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
Works Cited
1.Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Zhang ZQ, Fan QH, Pesic V, Smit H, Bochkov AV, Khaustov AA, Baker A, Wohltmann A, Wen T, Amrine JW, Beron P, Lin J, Gabrys G... 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 129–138.
2.A manual of acarology, 3rd Ed.
G.W. Krantz and D.E. Walter. 2009. Texas Tech University Press.