1Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology and Natural History Collection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Universytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
2Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, P. R. China.
Zootaxa. 2023 Apr 18;5265(1):1-442. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5265.1.1.
The primitive ptyctimous mites are one of the most important groups of oribatid mites (Acari), with almost cosmopolitan distribution, except for the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. These mites occur especially in places where there is decaying organic matter. In this study, a detailed catalogue of all known ptyctimous mite species in the world is presented. The catalogue provides information about the zoogeographical distribution of each species, discusses important nomenclatural issues and addresses some remarks. Besides this, it also contains useful data on known juvenile instars of 47 species. The catalogue also presents a classification of the higher taxa of eight families, four subfamilies, 42 genera, 15 subgenera, the taxonomic characteristics and the information about the zoogeographical distribution of 1458 valid known species from all over the world. Among them, 231 species and one genus are enumerated as synonyms, nine homonyms, one rejected name, one genus inquirenda, 41 species inquirendae, four subspecies inquirendae, one genus incertae sedis, 39 species incertae sedis, 12 species nomina nuda, two species mistakenly identified, one species without the author's name, and one non-ptyctimous mite species are included in the catalogue. Furthermore, the DNA sequence data of 53 ptyctimous species (belonging to eight families, 15 genera) can be found in the GenBank. Finally, the attached appendix contains important corrections referring to the published monographs published by the first author, and a list of new species described after the publication of these monographs. SEM photos of some typical ptyctimous mites showing their diversity are attached.
原始栉足螨是皮刺螨目（蜱螨亚纲）中最重要的螨类群之一，除了北极和南极地区外，几乎在全球范围内都有分布。这些螨类尤其存在于有腐烂有机物的地方。在这项研究中，提供了世界上所有已知栉足螨物种的详细目录。该目录提供了每种物种的动物地理分布信息，讨论了重要的命名问题并提出了一些意见。此外，它还包含了 47 种已知幼螨的有用数据。该目录还介绍了 8 科、4 亚科、42 属、15 亚属、分类特征以及全世界 1458 种有效已知物种的动物地理分布信息。其中，231 种和 1 个属被列为同义词，9 个同物异名，1 个废弃名，1 个待确认属，41 种待确认种，4 亚种待确认种，1 个不确定位置的属，39 种不确定位置的种，12 种裸名，2 种错误鉴定的种，1 种无作者名的种，以及 1 种非栉足螨种被包括在目录中。此外，还可以在 GenBank 中找到 53 种栉足螨物种（属于 8 科，15 属）的 DNA 序列数据。最后，附加的附录包含了关于第一作者出版的专著的重要更正，以及这些专著出版后描述的新物种列表。还附有一些展示其多样性的典型栉足螨的 SEM 照片。
