Torrenticolidae Piersig 1902

Fisher, J. R., Fisher, D. M., Nelson, W. A., O'Neill, J. C., Skvarla, M. J., Ochoa, R., Bauchan, G. R., Radwell, A. J. & Dowling, A. P. G., 2015, Torrenticola trimaculata n. sp. (Parasitengona: Torrenticolidae), a three-spotted water mite from eastern North America: taxonomic history, species delimitation, and survey of external morphology, Acarologia 55 (1), pp. 71-116 : 82-83

Torrenticolidae Piersig 1902

Lateroculatae: Haller 1882: 37 (in part) Koenike 1883: 34 (in part); 1895: 211 (in part); 1898: 376.

Hydrachnidae (Hydrachnides) : Bruzelius 1854: 3 (in part) Neuman 1880: 16 (in part) Canestrini 1891: 708 (in part) Piersig 1897: 259 (in part) Piersig and Lohmann 1901: 1 (in part).

Lebertiidae : Thor 1900: 264 (in part) Viets KH 1956: 235 (in part).

Hygrobatidae (Hygrobatides) : Koch 1842: 23 (in part) Wolcott 1901: 113 Koenike 1909: 52 Maglio 1909: 260 Koenike 1910: 148 Monti 1910: 52 Halbert 1911: 15 Walter 1922: 102.

Atracteidae: Thor 1902: 408 (in part) Thor 1923: 50 Viets KH 1936: 232 Husiatinschi 1937: 87 Sokolow 1940:263 Halbert 1944: 72 Baker and Wharton 1952: 295 Imamura 1953b: 411 [misspelled Atractideidae ].

Torrenticolidae : Piersig 1902: 850 Oudemans 1941: 178 Szalay 1947: 289 Viets KH 1949: 296 Viets KH 1953: 35 Mitchell 1954: 39 Viets KH 1956: 235 Imamura 1959a: 426 Imamura 1959b: 64 Newell 1959: 1100 Crowell 1960: 34 Viets KO 1961: 125 Besch 1963: 542 Besch 1964: 168 Szalay 1964: 112 Imamura 1965: 238 Cook 1966: 63 Conroy 1968: 28 LAEska 1971: 435 van Rensburg 1971: 325 Prasad and Cook 1972: 23, 61 Cook 1974: 144-145 Rensburg 1976: 14 Viets KO and Böttger 1974: 126 Viets KO 1977a: 525 Conroy 1978: 117 Krantz 1978: 290, 305 Davids 1979: 55 Smith and Lindquist 1979: 270 Cook 1980: 44 Wainstein 1980: 125, 144 Viets KO 1981b: 26 Barr 1982: 155 Kethley 1982: 133 Smith 1982: 903, 921-922, 929 Cook 1986: 49 Viets KO 1987: 752 Bader 1988: 87 Di Sabatino and Cicolani 1990: 44 Cramer 1992: 17 Di Sabatino et al. 1992: 255 Di Sabatino and Cicolani 1993: 31 Gerecke and Di Sabatino 1996: 287 Wiles 1997: 192 Cramer and Cook 2000: 51 Peši´c and Asadi 2002: 1 Di Sabatino et al. 2003: 393 Tuzovskij 2003: 363 Goldschmidt 2007: 444 Peši´c et al. 2004: 1 Turan and Peši´c 2004: 38 Valdecasus 2005: 13 Peši´c et al. 2006: 45 Goldschmidt 2007: 443-450 Di Sabatino et al. 2009: 25 Goldschmidt and Smit 2009: 180 Krantz and Walter 2009: 263 Di Sabatino et al 2010: 177 Erman et al. 2010: 17 Jin et al. 2010: 111 Smith et al. 2010: 492 Peši´c et al. 2011: 3 Peši´c and Smit 2011: 188 Peši´c et al. 2012a: 459 Peši´c et al. 2012b: 18 Tuzovskij 2012: 122 Peši´c et al. 2013: 23 Tuzovskij 2013: 182 Peši´c 2014: 207 Peši´c and Gerecke 2014: 368 Peši´c and Smit 2014a: 5 Peši´c and Smit 2014b: 4.

Anisitsiellidae : Wiles 1991: 43.

Familial diagnosis — Torrenticolidae can be differentiated from other lebertioids by being heavily sclerotized; dorso-ventrally flattened; with a dorsal shield comprising a large, central dorsal plate surrounded by a ring of smaller platelets (posterior platelets within a dorsal furrow in Torrenticolinae ); and most having six genital acetabula (three in Testudacarinae and other Lebertioidea ). Additionally, although not diagnostic, another character that can be helpful in distinguishing torrenticolids from similar looking mites is the Y-shaped suture formed by the division between Coxae-I and Coxae-II, and the medial suture formed by Coxae-II. This suture is obvious due to the incomplete suture between Coxae- II and -III, common to many lebertioids.