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Oribatid Mites

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Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research ((DPER,volume 4))

Abstract

Mites (Acari) are members of the Chelicerata, within the class Arthropoda. They are placed in the two orders Anactinotrichida (= Opilioacariformes + Parasitiformes of other authors), and Actinotrichida (= Acariformes) to which the suborder Oribatida belongs. The average free-living mite is barely perceptible to the sharpest eyes, as Walter & Proctor (1999) note in their inspiring book on mite ecology, evolution, and behaviour. There are three characteristic mite features shared with other chelicerates, which distinguish them from insects. The first is the occurrence of paired chelicerae and palpi in the oral region. The second is four pairs of legs in adults and the three nymphal instars (but three pairs in the larvae, a feature only shared with the subclass Ricinulei). The third characteristic feature is the division of the body into an anterior region, the prosoma, and a posterior region, the opisthosoma. In Acari the opisthosoma is modified in a very characteristic way: an anterior part bearing the chelicerae and palps forms a gnathosoma which articulates against the remaining part of the body called the idiosoma (see Alberti & Coons, 1999, for details). Systematics, biology, evolution, and the astonishing morphological and ecological variation among mites are well illustrated in the general books listed in Appendix 1.

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