Gamasiphoides Womersley, 1956

Halliday, R. B., 2005, Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae), Zootaxa 1079, pp. 11-64 : 42

Gamasiphoides Womersley, 1956

Gamasiphoides is a genus of 17 named species from New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and New Caledonia ( Womersley, 1956; Lee, 1970; Karg, 1976, 1993b, 1996). Loots (1979) recorded two undescribed species from South Africa, but these have remained undescribed, and may be the same as the two species described here. Almost nothing is known of the biology of this genus except that specimens are found in moss and leaf litter, where they are presumed to be predatory.