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