Crotoniidae

Crotoniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Acari
Superorder:	Acariformes
Order:	Oribatida
Suborder:	Holosomata
Superfamily:	Crotonioidea
Family:	Crotoniidae Thorell, 1876
Species
See text.
Diversity
2 genera, c. 40 species
Synonyms
Crotonidae Holonothridae

Crotoniidae are a family of mites of the Holosomata group that may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then reevolved it. This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.^[1]

Species

• Crotonia Thorell, 1876
  • Crotonia alluaudi (Berlese, 1916) — Africa
  • Crotonia americana (Berlese, 1901) — South America
  • Crotonia ardala Luxton, 1987 — Australia
  • Crotonia blaszaki Szywilewska, Olszanowski & Norton, 2005 — Chile
  • Crotonia borbora Luxton, 1987 — Australia
  • Crotonia brassicae Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
  • Crotonia brevicornuta (Wallwork, 1966) — Antarctica
  • Crotonia camelus (Berlese, 1910) — New Caledonia
  • Crotonia capistrata Luxton, 1987 — Australia
  • Crotonia caudalis (Hammer, 1966) — New Zealand
  • Crotonia cervicorna Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
  • Crotonia chiloensis Wallwork, 1977 — Chile
  • Crotonia cophinaria (Michael, 1908) — Argentina, New Zealand
  • Crotonia cupulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
  • Crotonia dicella Colloff, 1990 — Natal, South Africa
  • Crotonia ecphyla Colloff, 1990 — Natal
  • Crotonia flagellata (Balogh & Csiszar, 1963) — South America
  • Crotonia jethurmerae Lee, 1985 — South Australia
  • Crotonia lanceolata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
  • Crotonia longibulbula Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
  • Crotonia lyrata Colloff, 1990 — Natal
  • Crotonia marlenae Olszanowski, 1997 — Serra do Mar, Parati area; Brazil
  • Crotonia nukuhivae (Jacot, 1934) — Pacific islands
  • Crotonia obtecta (Cambridge, 1875) — Chile, New Zealand
  • Crotonia ovata Olszanowski, 2000 — Hellyer River gorge: Tasmania
  • Crotonia pauropelor Colloff, 1990 — Natal
  • Crotonia perforata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
  • Crotonia pulchra (Beck, 1962) — Neotropics
  • Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
  • Crotonia rothschildi (Berlese, 1916) — Ethiopia
  • Crotonia tryjanowskii Olszanowski, 2000 — New England N.P.: New South Wales
  • Crotonia tuberculata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
  • Crotonia unguifera (Michael, 1908) New Zealand
• Holonothrus Wallwork, 1963
  • Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia
  • Holonothrus concavus Wallwork, 1966 — Antarctica
  • Holonothrus foliatus Wallwork, 1963 — Antarctica
  • Holonothrus gracilis Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park: New Zealand
  • Holonothrus mitis Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
  • Holonothrus naskreckii Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park; New Zealand
  • Holonothrus nortoni Olszanowski, 1999 — Dominica, Trois Pitons: Leeward Islands
  • Holonothrus novaecaledoniae Olszanowski, 1997 — Mount Paine: New Caledonia
  • Holonothrus papua Balogh & Balogh, 1986 — Papua New Guinea
  • Holonothrus pulcher Hammer, 1966 — New Zealand
  • Holonothrus robustus Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
  • Holonothrus venetiolanus Olszanowski, 1999 — Mérida, Laguna Negra: Venezuela; neotropical
  • Holonothrus virungensis Norton & Olszanowski, 1989 — Congo: Kinshasa

Footnotes

1. Norton, R. (2007), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 24, cited in Science News, vol. 171, p. 302

References

• Subías, Luis S. (2007): Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (Excepto fósiles). PDF
• Katja Domes, Roy A. Norton, Mark Maraun & Stefan Scheu (2007). "Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo's law". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (17): 7139–7144. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700034104. PMC 1855408. PMID 17438282.