Crotoniidae
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Crotoniidae are a family of mites of the Desmonomata group that may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then reevolved it. This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.[1]
[edit] Species
- Crotonia Thorell, 1876
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- Crotonia alluaudi (Berlese, 1916) — Africa
- Crotonia americana (Berlese, 1901) — South America
- Crotonia ardala Luxton, 1987 — Australia
- Crotonia blaszaki Szywilewska, Olszanowski & Norton, 2005 — Chile
- Crotonia borbora Luxton, 1987 — Australia
- Crotonia brassicae Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
- Crotonia brevicornuta (Wallwork, 1966) — Antarctica
- Crotonia camelus (Berlese, 1910) — New Caledonia
- Crotonia capistrata Luxton, 1987 — Australia
- Crotonia caudalis (Hammer, 1966) — New Zealand
- Crotonia cervicorna Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia chiloensis Wallwork, 1977 — Chile
- Crotonia cophinaria (Michael, 1908) — Argentina, New Zealand
- Crotonia cupulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia dicella Colloff, 1990 — Natal (South Africa)
- Crotonia ecphyla Colloff, 1990 — Natal
- Crotonia flagellata (Balogh & Csiszar, 1963) — South America
- Crotonia jethurmerae Lee, 1985 — South Australia
- Crotonia lanceolata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
- Crotonia longibulbula Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia lyrata Colloff, 1990 — Natal
- Crotonia marlenae Olszanowski, 1997 — Serra do Mar, Parati area; Brazil
- Crotonia nukuhivae (Jacot, 1934) — Pacific islands
- Crotonia obtecta (Cambridge, 1875) — Chile, New Zealand
- Crotonia ovata Olszanowski, 2000 — Hellyer River gorge: Tasmania
- Crotonia pauropelor Colloff, 1990 — Natal
- Crotonia perforata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
- Crotonia pulchra (Beck, 1962) — Neotropics
- Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia rothschildi (Berlese, 1916) — Ethiopia
- Crotonia tryjanowskii Olszanowski, 2000 — New England N.P.: New South Wales
- Crotonia tuberculata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia unguifera (Michael, 1908) New Zealand
- Holonothrus Wallwork, 1963
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- Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia
- Holonothrus concavus Wallwork, 1966 — Antarctica
- Holonothrus foliatus Wallwork, 1963 — Antarctica
- Holonothrus gracilis Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park: New Zealand
- Holonothrus mitis Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
- Holonothrus naskreckii Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park; New Zealand
- Holonothrus nortoni Olszanowski, 1999 — Dominica, Trois Pitons: Leeward Islands
- Holonothrus novaecaledoniae Olszanowski, 1997 — Mount Paine: New Caledonia
- Holonothrus papua Balogh & Balogh, 1986 — Papua New Guinea
- Holonothrus pulcher Hammer, 1966 — New Zealand
- Holonothrus robustus Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
- Holonothrus venetiolanus Olszanowski, 1999 — Merida, Laguna Negra: Venezuela; neotropical
- Holonothrus virungensis Norton & Olszanowski, 1989 — Congo: Kinshasa
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Domes et al. 2007
[edit] References
- Subías, Luis S. (2007): Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (Excepto fósiles). PDF
- Katja Domes, Roy A. Norton, Mark Maraun & Stefan Scheu (2007). Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo's law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (17): 7139–7144. doi:. PMID 17438282.
