Trispeleognathini

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tydeoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Trombidiformes Subordo: Prostigmata Cohort: Eupodina Superfamilia: Tydeoidea

Familia: Ereynetidae
Subfamilia: Speleognathinae
Tribus: Trispeleognathini
Genus (14): Astrida – Fainaureliania – Meropiboydaia – Metaboydaia – Neastrida – Neoboydaia – Ophthalmognathus – Phoenicopteriella – Picinyssus – Psittaboydaia – Pterniboydaia – Ralliboydaia – Speleognathopsis – Trispeleognathus

• nec Neospeleognathus (j. synonym)
• nec Aureliania (j. homonym)

Name

Trispeleognathini Fain, 1985

• Original status: valid tribe
• Type genus: Trispeleognathus Fain, 1958

Notes

• The tribe was initially divided in 14 genera by Fain (1985).
• The tribe in the Afrotropical region was reviewed by Skoracki et al. (2018)

References

• Fain, A. 1958. Notes sur les Acariens de la sous-famille Speleognathinae Fain 1957 (Trombidiformes - Ereynetidae Oudemans). Essai de groupement sous-générique. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines, 58(1-2): 175–183.
• Fain, A. 1985. Systematic notes on the Speleognathinae (Acari, Ereynetidae) with description of new taxa and a key to the Trispeleognathini. Bulletin & Annales de la Société royale belge d'Entomologie 121: 143–152.
• Skoracki, M., Schmidt, K-H., Marciniak, N. & Marciniak, M. 2018. A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 4403(3): 401–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1 Reference page.