OPPIIDAE Grandjean, 1954

Haitlinger, Ryszard, 2024, Arthropods associated with world passalid beetles with particular reference to the Diarthrophallidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Journal of Natural History 58 (29 - 32), pp. 1178-1259 : 1242

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OPPIIDAE Grandjean, 1954
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In this family only species of the genera Graptoppia Balogh, 1983 , Neoameioppia Subias, 1989, Ramusella Hammer, 1962 , unidentified Oppia Koch, 1835 and unidentified Oppiellinae Seniczak, 1975 were found on Passalidae . Four species of Oppiidae were found on eight host species, and unidentified Oppia and Oppiellinae were collected from seven host species (Franklin and Woas 1972; Villegas-Guzmán et al. 2008; Ermilov 2019; Ermilov and Frolov 2019, 2021). Most species were collected from Aceraius grandis (3), and the largest number of host species was found for Graptoppia luisi Ermilov and Frolov, 2019 (4), G. royi Ermilov, 2019 (3) and Ramusella blattarum (Oudemans, 1911) (3).

Ermilov SG, Frolov AV. 2019. New and interesting oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) phoretic on Aceraius g randis (Coleoptera, Passalidae) from Vietnam. Syst Appl Acarol. 24: 945 - 961.

Villegas-Guzman GA, Perez TM, Reyes-Castillo P. 2008. Acaros asociados al coleopteron Passalus c ognatus (Coleoptera: Passalidae) de Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Rev Biol Tropic. 56: 1261 - 1268.