Halolaelapidae Karg, 1965

Trach, V. A., 2016, New records of carabid-associated mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Ukraine with description of adults of Halodarcia carabidophila Evans and Fain, 1995 (Halolaelapidae), Acarologia 56 (4), pp. 587-601 : 589

Family Halolaelapidae Karg, 1965 Genus Halodarcia Karg, 1969

Remarks — So far, four species of genus Halodarcia have been described world-wide, three of them from Europe — Halodarcia incideta Karg, 1969 , H. porolata Karg, 1969 , H. carabidophila Evans and Fain, 1995 and H. kargi Nikolsky, 1982 from Asia ( Karg, 1969; Nikolsky, 1982; Evans and Fain, 1995). Adult mites of the genus Halodarcia are free-living in litter and humus in damp or wet situations; deutonymphs, of at least some species, are subelytral phoretics of carabid beetles ( Evans and Fain, 1995).