''Opilioacarus'' is a genus of
opilioacarid 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 analysis does not show clear evid ...
s native to the Mediterranean region. The following species are recognised:
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Opilioacarus baeticus''
Moraza et al. 2022, Iberian Peninsula
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Opilioacarus brignolii''
Araújo & di Palma, 2018, Southern Italy, Sardinia
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Opilioacarus italicus''
(With, 1904) Sicily
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Opilioacarus segmentatus''
With, 1902 Greece, Algeria, Uzbekistan? (possibly in need of splitting
)
*''Opilioacarus aenigmus''
Dunlop ''et al.'' 2004 Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 1 ...
,
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...
*''?Opilioacarus groehni''
Dunlop & Bernardi, 2014 Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...
, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
) (tentatively placed in this genus)
The following species have been transferred elsewhere:
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Opilioacarus bajacalifornicus''
Vázquez & Klompen, 2002
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Opilioacarus nicaraguensis''
Vázquez & Klompen, 2002
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Opilioacarus nohbecanus''
Vázquez & Klompen, 2002
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Opilioacarus ojastii''
(Lehtinen, 1980)
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Opilioacarus orghidani''
Juvara-Bals & Baltac, 1977
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Opilioacarus platensis''
Silvestri, 1905
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Opilioacarus siankaanensis''
Vázquez & Klompen, 2002
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Opilioacarus texanus''
(Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942)
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Opilioacarus vanderhammeni''
Juvara-Bals & Baltac, 1977
References
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Acari genera
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