Alycidae is a family of mites, or endeostigs, in the suborder
Endeostigmata
Endeostigmata is a suborder of acariform mites. There are about ten families in Endeostigmata. The grouping is strongly suspected to be paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most ...
. There are at least 6 genera in Alycidae.
[
]
Genera
These six genera belong to the family Alycidae:
* ''Alycus
''Alycus'' is a genus of mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic ...
'' C.L.Koch, 1842
* '' Amphialycus'' Zachvatkin, 1949
* '' Coccalicus'' Willmann, 1952
* '' Laminamichaelia'' Uusitalo, 2010
* '' Orthacarus'' Zachvatkin, 1949
* '' Petralycus'' Grandjean, 1943
References
Further reading
*
*
*
Sarcoptiformes
Acari families
{{acari-stub