Crotoniidae

Crotoniidae are a family of mites of the Holosomata group that may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then re-evolved it. This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.

Species

• Crotonia <small>Thorell, 1876</small>
• Crotonia alluaudi <small>(Berlese, 1916)</small> — Africa
• Crotonia americana <small>(Berlese, 1901)</small> — South America
• Crotonia ardala <small>Luxton, 1987</small> — Australia
• Crotonia blaszaki <small>Szywilewska, Olszanowski & Norton, 2005</small> — Chile
• Crotonia borbora <small>Luxton, 1987</small> — Australia
• Crotonia brassicae <small>Wallwork, 1977</small> — St. Helena
• Crotonia brevicornuta <small>(Wallwork, 1966)</small> — Antarctica
• Crotonia camelus <small>(Berlese, 1910)</small> — New Caledonia
• Crotonia capistrata <small>Luxton, 1987</small> — Australia
• Crotonia caudalis <small>(Hammer, 1966)</small> — New Zealand
• Crotonia cervicorna <small>Luxton, 1982</small> — New Zealand
• Crotonia chiloensis <small>Wallwork, 1977</small> — Chile
• Crotonia cophinaria <small>(Michael, 1908)</small> — Argentina, New Zealand
• Crotonia cupulata <small>Luxton, 1982</small> — New Zealand
• Crotonia dicella <small>Colloff, 1990</small> — Natal, South Africa
• Crotonia ecphyla <small>Colloff, 1990</small> — Natal
• Crotonia flagellata <small>(Balogh & Csiszar, 1963)</small> — South America
• Crotonia jethurmerae <small>Lee, 1985</small> — South Australia
• Crotonia lanceolata <small>Wallwork, 1977</small> — St. Helena
• Crotonia longibulbula <small>Luxton, 1982</small> — New Zealand
• Crotonia lyrata <small>Colloff, 1990</small> — Natal
• Crotonia marlenae <small>Olszanowski, 1997</small> — Serra do Mar, Parati area; Brazil
• Crotonia nukuhivae <small>(Jacot, 1934)</small> — Pacific islands
• Crotonia obtecta <small>(Cambridge, 1875)</small> — Chile, New Zealand
• Crotonia ovata <small>Olszanowski, 2000</small> — Hellyer River gorge: Tasmania
• Crotonia pauropelor <small>Colloff, 1990</small> — Natal
• Crotonia perforata <small>Wallwork, 1977</small> — St. Helena
• Crotonia pulchra <small>(Beck, 1962)</small> — Neotropics
• Crotonia pyemaireneri <small>Colloff, 2009</small> — Tasmania
• Crotonia reticulata <small>Luxton, 1982</small> — New Zealand
• Crotonia rothschildi <small>(Berlese, 1916)</small> — Ethiopia
• Crotonia tasmaniana <small>Colloff, 2009</small> — Tasmania
• Crotonia tryjanowskii <small>Olszanowski, 2000</small> — New England N.P.: New South Wales
• Crotonia tuberculata <small>Luxton, 1982</small> — New Zealand
• Crotonia unguifera <small>(Michael, 1908)</small> New Zealand
• Holonothrus <small>Wallwork, 1963</small>
• Holonothrus artus <small>Olszanowski, 1999</small> — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia
• Holonothrus concavus <small>Wallwork, 1966</small> — Antarctica
• Holonothrus foliatus <small>Wallwork, 1963</small> — Antarctica
• Holonothrus gracilis <small>Olszanowski, 1997</small> — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park: New Zealand
• Holonothrus mitis <small>Olszanowski, 1991</small> — Tasmania, Australia
• Holonothrus naskreckii <small>Olszanowski, 1997</small> — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park; New Zealand
• Holonothrus nortoni <small>Olszanowski, 1999</small> — Dominica, Trois Pitons: Leeward Islands
• Holonothrus novaecaledoniae <small>Olszanowski, 1997</small> — Mount Paine: New Caledonia
• Holonothrus papua <small>Balogh & Balogh, 1986</small> — Papua New Guinea
• Holonothrus pulcher <small>Hammer, 1966</small> — New Zealand
• Holonothrus robustus <small>Olszanowski, 1991</small> — Tasmania, Australia
• Holonothrus venetiolanus <small>Olszanowski, 1999</small> — Mérida, Laguna Negra: Venezuela; neotropical
• Holonothrus virungensis <small>Norton & Olszanowski, 1989</small> — Congo: Kinshasa

Footnotes

References

• Subías, Luis S. (2007): Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (Excepto fósiles). PDF