Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Acariformes
Ordo: Trombidiformes
Subordo: Prostigmata
Cohort: Eupodina
Superfamilia: Tydeoidea
Familiae (4): Ereynetidae - Iolinidae - Triophtydeidae - Tydeidae

Name

Tydeoidea Kramer, 1877

• Original status: valid superfamily

Notes

• The meaning of Tydeoidea has varied over time. This superfamily was proposed by Cunliffe (1955) to accommodate the families Tydeidae, Speleognathidae, Ereynetidae, and Paratydeidae.

• Next, this superfamily included 4 families: the Paratydeidae, Nematalycidae, Ereynetidae, and Tydeidae (Krantz, 1970: 151–152).

• Next, it also comprised 4 families: the Paratydeidae, Ereynetidae, Tydeidae, and Iolinidae (Krantz, 1978: 236–237).

• Last, the superfamily included the Tydeidae, Iolinidae, Ereynetidae, and Meyerellidae (André & Fain, 2000). This point of view was shared by Walter et al. (2009: 244–245) except that the name "Meyerellidae" was replaced by "Triophtydeidae" (replacement name for Meyerellidae). This classification with 4 families is also adopted by Lin & Zhang (2010) and Zhang et al. (2011).

• A diachronic view is provided by André (2021, fig. 1).

References

• André, H.M. 2021. The Tydeoidea (Ereynetidae, Iolinidae, Triophtydeidae and Tydeidae) - An online database in the Wikispecies platform. Acarologia 61(4): 1023-1035. DOI: 10.24349/6yc5-1lxw Reference page. 
• André, H.M. & Fain, A. 2000. Phylogeny, ontogeny and adaptive radiation in the superfamily Tydeoidea (Acari: Actinedida), with a reappraisal of morphological characters. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 130(3): 405–448. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb01636.x DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1999.0237

• Cunliffe, F. 1955. A proposed classification of the Trombidiformes mites (Acari). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 57(5): 209–218. BHL Reference page. 
• Kramer, P.M. 1877. Grundzüge zur Systematik der Milben. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin, 43: 215–247.
• Krantz, G.W. 1970. A Manual of Acarology, First Edition. Oregon State University Bookstores, Corvallis.
• Krantz, G.W. 1978. A Manual of Acarology, Second Edition. Oregon State University Bookstores, Corvallis.
• Lin, J.-Z. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2010. Tydeoidea of China: a review of progress, with a checklist. Zoosymposia, 4: 51–56.
• Walter, D.E, Linquist, E.E., Smith, I.M., Cook, D.R. & Krantz, G.W. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. In: Krantz, G.W. and Walter, D.E (eds.). A Manual of Acarology, Third Edition. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. Chapter 13, pp. 233-420.

• Zhang, Z-Q., Fan, Q-H., Pesic, V., Smit, H., Bochkov, A.V., Khaustov, A.A., Baker, A., Wohltmann, A., Wen, T-H., Amrine, J.W., Beron, P., Lin, J-Z., Gabrys, G. & Husband, R. 2011. Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. Pp 129–138 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page.