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Research Project: Systematics of Acari and Hemiptera: Plant Pests, Predators, and Disease Vectors

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: Order / Sarcoptiformes Reuter, 1909

Author
item BARROS-BATTESTI, D.M. - Faculdade De Ciências Agrárias E Veterinárias De Jaboticabal-Unesp
item BASSINI-SILVA, R. - Butantan Institute
item JACINAVICIUS, F.C. - Butantan Institute
item Ochoa, Ronald - Ron

Submitted to: The Brazilian College of Veterinary Parasitology
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/5/2021
Publication Date: 4/16/2021
Citation: Barros-Battesti, D., Bassini-Silva, R., Jacinavicius, F., Ochoa, R. 2021. Order / Sarcoptiformes Reuter, 1909. The Brazilian College of Veterinary Parasitology. 1(1):141-148.

Interpretive Summary: (Book Chapter)

Technical Abstract: The order Sarcoptiformes includes approximately 15,000 species that are distributed among 230 families belonging to two suborders: Endeostigmata and Oribatida (Lindquist et al., 2009). Endeostigmata has three subfamilies comprising predators and parasites of plants. However, it is worth mentioning that according to Pepato & Klimov (2015), this is an ancestral group in Acariformes and a brother of Sacoptiformes and Trombidiformes. Probably in the coming years Endeostigmata will be considered as a separate order. Oribatida is formed by mites found predominantly in the soil, which are classified in several families. From the veterinary point of view, the known families are: Ceratozetidae, Galumnidae, Oribatulidae, and Scheloribatidae, whose representatives act in the cycles of some parasitic flatworms of the family Anoplocephalidae (Denegri, 1993; Mullen & OConnor, 2019). As these oribatid mites are not endo or ectoparasites, they have not been included in the following chapters.