Superfamily Eriophyoidea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Black cherry fingergalls - 1 - Eriophyes cerasicrumena

Maple Bladdergall Mite? - Vasates quadripedes

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.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 30 December, 2006 - 8:38am
Additional contributions by Edward Ruden
Last updated 4 May, 2024 - 8:23pm

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