Endeostigmata is a suborder of acariform mites. There are about ten families in Endeostigmata. The grouping is strongly suspected to be paraphyletic, containing unrelated early diverging lineages of mites.
Taxonomy
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- Suborder Endeostigmata <small>Reuter, 1909</small> (5 superfamilies, 10 families, 27 genera, 108 species)
- Infraorder Bimichaliida <small>Oconnor, 1984</small> (1 superfamily)
- Superfamily Alycoidea <small>G. Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877</small> (3 families)
- Family Alycidae <small>G. Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877</small> (6 genera, 29 species)
- Family Nanorchestidae <small>Grandjean, 1937</small> (5 genera, 45 species)
- Family Proterorhagiidae <small>Lindquist & Palacios-Vargas, 1991</small> (1 genus, 1 species)
- Infraorder Nematalycina <small>Lindquist, Krantz & Walter, 2009</small> (1 superfamily)
- Superfamily Nematalycoidea <small>Strenke, 1954</small> (2 families)
- Family Micropsammidae <small>Coineau & Theron, 1983</small> (1 genus, 1 species)
- Family Nematalycidae <small>Strenke, 1954</small> (4 genera, 4 species)
- Family Proteonematalycidae <small>Kethley, 1989</small> (1 genus, 1 species)
- Infraorder Terpnacarida <small>Oconnor, 1984</small> (2 superfamilies)
- Superfamily Oehserchestoidea <small>Kethley, 1977</small> (1 family)
- Family Oehserchestidae <small>Kethley, 1977</small> (1 genus, 4 species)
- Family Grandjeanicidae <small>Kethley, 1977</small> (1 genus, 3 species)
- Superfamily Terpnacaroidea <small>Grandjean, 1939</small> (1 family)
- Family Terpnacaridae <small>Grandjean, 1939</small> (2 genera, 11 species)
- Infraorder Alicorhagiida <small>Oconnor, 1984</small> (1 superfamily)
- Superfamily Alicorhagioidea <small>Grandjean, 1939</small> (1 family)
- Family Alicorhagiidae <small>Grandjean, 1939</small> (5 genera, 9 species)
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