EYLAIDAE Leach, 1815

Gerecke, Reinhard, 2004, The water mites of Madagascar (Acari, Hydrachnidia): a revised list completed by original material conserved at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Zoosystema 26 (3), pp. 393-418 : 398

Family EYLAIDAE Leach, 1815

This monogeneric family needs worldwide revision. For this purpose, fresh material is necessary, and rearing experiments should be done in order to obtain immature stages for comparative morphological investigation. Here, the material of the MNHN is very provisionally identified on the basis of the frontal shield (“eye glasses”) morphology of two species recorded from the study area by Koenike (1898).