Rhynchaustrobates Cook, 1986

Smit, Harry, 2015, The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Zootaxa 4033 (4), pp. 567-583 : 576

Genus Rhynchaustrobates Cook, 1986

Rhynchaustrobates is small genus, known only from Australia. To date, six species are known from Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales ( Cook 1986, Harvey 1998, Smit 2001). All species have the capitulum attached to a long tube of soft integument to produce protrusible mouthparts, and this is not repeated in the text.