Sejida

Sejida is a suborder of mites in the order Mesostigmata. There are about 5 families and 13 described species in Sejida. The oldest known record of the group is an indeterminate deutonymph belonging to Sejidae from the mid Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar.

Families

These five families belong to the suborder Sejida:

• Discozerconidae <small>Berlese, 1910</small>
• Heterozerconidae <small>Berlese, 1892</small>
• Ichthyostomatogasteridae <small>Sellnick, 1953</small>
• Sejidae <small>Berlese, 1885</small>
• Uropodellidae <small>Camin, 1955</small>

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