Winterschmidtiidae

Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.

Ecology

The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous, though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous.
For some specific examples, species of Winterschmidtia and Parawinterschmidtia are associated with beetles living under bark, Vespacarus and Kennethiella with eumenine wasps and Vidia with Megachile bees. The genus Psylloglyphus is associated with fleas.

Genera

These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:

Acalvolia Fain, 1971
Allocalvolia Fain & Rack, 1987
Calvolia Oudemans, 1911
Congovidia Fain & Elsen, in Fain, 1971
Crabrovidia Zakhvatkin, 1941
Czenspinskia Oudemans, 1927
Ensliniella Vitzthum, 1925
Gambacarus Mahunka, 1975
Kennethiella Cooreman, 1954
Kurosaia Okabe & OConnor, 2002
Macroharpa Mostafa, 1970
Monobiacarus Baker & Cunliffe, 1960
Neocalvolia Hughes, 1970
Neosuidasia Ranganath & Channabasa, 1983
Neottiglyphus Volgin, 1974
Oulenzia Radford, 1950
Oulenziella Fan et al., 2015
Parawinterschmidtia Khaustov, 2000
Procalvolia Fain, 1971
Riemia Oudemans, 1925
Saproglyphus Berlese, 1890
Sphexicozela Mahunka, 1970
Trypetacarus Fain, 1971
Vespacarus Baker, 1960
Vidia Oudemans, 1905
Winterschmidtia Oudemans, 1923
Zethacarus Mostafa, 1971
Zethovidia Mostafa, 1970