Australiobates Lundblad, 1941

Orginal, Harry Smit, 2021, The water mites of Western Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 13 new species, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 928-966 : 940

Genus Australiobates Lundblad, 1941

The genus has a Gondwanan distribution, with numerous species known from Australasia, South America and South Africa. The majority, however, are known from Australia, where

19 species are known, six of these have been reported from Western Australia ( Harvey 1998a ;

Smit 2001).