Emitrombidium giocondi sp. nov., a second species of Emitrombidium is described based on postlarval forms originating from Turkey. The history of the genus is retraced. The previous conjectures about the uncertain family affiliation of Emitrombidium are clarified and the genus is reinstated as a member of Trombidiidae. Hitherto records suggest the Mediterranean and Pontic distribution of the ge...

THE SUBFAMILY Johnstonianinae Thor 1935 (Trombidiidae) was established to include Johnstoniana George 1909 and related genera. The only comprehensive treatment of the group was published by Thor and Willmann (1947) who included eight species in the genera Centrotrombidium Kramer 1896, Johnstoniana, Diplothrombium Berlese 1910, Myrmicotrombium Womersley 1934, and Hirstithrombium Oudemans 1928. T...

Most mites of the family Trombidiidae are ectoparasites in the larval stage and free-living predators in the deutonymphal and adult stages on a variety of arthropods, among which are pests of many economic crops. This paper provides an updated review of their systematics, life history, reproduction, behaviour, predator–prey and parasite–host relationships, and population dynamics, with particul...

Certain mites (Acarina) are parasitic on insects and other arthropods or use them as a means for transport to habitats where they find more suitable environmental conditions. This article reports on phoretic and parasitic mites collected from Diptera in Israel and Egypt. Flies from the families Muscidae, Ceratopogonidae, Sphaeroceridae, Milichiidae, Sepsidae, and Ulidiidae were collected in the...

during 2009, in the course of a faunistic survey of terrestrial parasitengona mites in jahrom region, ronaldothrombium bellator (southcott, 1986) (acari, trombidiidae) was collected and identified for the first time from iran. it was collected as ectoparasite of an unidentified araneae, which is a new host for r. bellator.