Crotoniidae

Crotoniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Acari
Superorder:	Acariformes
Order:	Oribatida
Suborder:	Desmonomata
Superfamily:	Crotonioidea
Family:	Crotoniidae Thorell, 1876
Species
See text.
Diversity
2 genera, c. 40 species
Synonyms
Crotonidae Holonothridae

Crotoniidae are a family of mites of the Desmonomata group that may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then reevolved it. This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.^[1]

Species

• Crotonia Thorell, 1876

• Crotonia alluaudi (Berlese, 1916) — Africa
• Crotonia americana (Berlese, 1901) — South America
• Crotonia ardala Luxton, 1987 — Australia
• Crotonia blaszaki Szywilewska, Olszanowski & Norton, 2005 — Chile
• Crotonia borbora Luxton, 1987 — Australia
• Crotonia brassicae Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
• Crotonia brevicornuta (Wallwork, 1966) — Antarctica
• Crotonia camelus (Berlese, 1910) — New Caledonia
• Crotonia capistrata Luxton, 1987 — Australia
• Crotonia caudalis (Hammer, 1966) — New Zealand
• Crotonia cervicorna Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
• Crotonia chiloensis Wallwork, 1977 — Chile
• Crotonia cophinaria (Michael, 1908) — Argentina, New Zealand
• Crotonia cupulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
• Crotonia dicella Colloff, 1990 — Natal, South Africa
• Crotonia ecphyla Colloff, 1990 — Natal
• Crotonia flagellata (Balogh & Csiszar, 1963) — South America
• Crotonia jethurmerae Lee, 1985 — South Australia
• Crotonia lanceolata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
• Crotonia longibulbula Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
• Crotonia lyrata Colloff, 1990 — Natal
• Crotonia marlenae Olszanowski, 1997 — Serra do Mar, Parati area; Brazil
• Crotonia nukuhivae (Jacot, 1934) — Pacific islands
• Crotonia obtecta (Cambridge, 1875) — Chile, New Zealand
• Crotonia ovata Olszanowski, 2000 — Hellyer River gorge: Tasmania
• Crotonia pauropelor Colloff, 1990 — Natal
• Crotonia perforata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
• Crotonia pulchra (Beck, 1962) — Neotropics
• Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
• Crotonia rothschildi (Berlese, 1916) — Ethiopia
• Crotonia tryjanowskii Olszanowski, 2000 — New England N.P.: New South Wales
• Crotonia tuberculata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
• Crotonia unguifera (Michael, 1908) New Zealand

• Holonothrus Wallwork, 1963

• Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia
• Holonothrus concavus Wallwork, 1966 — Antarctica
• Holonothrus foliatus Wallwork, 1963 — Antarctica
• Holonothrus gracilis Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park: New Zealand
• Holonothrus mitis Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
• Holonothrus naskreckii Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park; New Zealand
• Holonothrus nortoni Olszanowski, 1999 — Dominica, Trois Pitons: Leeward Islands
• Holonothrus novaecaledoniae Olszanowski, 1997 — Mount Paine: New Caledonia
• Holonothrus papua Balogh & Balogh, 1986 — Papua New Guinea
• Holonothrus pulcher Hammer, 1966 — New Zealand
• Holonothrus robustus Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
• Holonothrus venetiolanus Olszanowski, 1999 — Merida, Laguna Negra: Venezuela; neotropical
• Holonothrus virungensis Norton & Olszanowski, 1989 — Congo: Kinshasa

Footnotes

1. ^ Norton, R. (2007), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 24, cited in Science News, vol. 171, p. 302

References

• Subías, Luis S. (2007): Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (Excepto fósiles). PDF
• Katja Domes, Roy A. Norton, Mark Maraun & Stefan Scheu (2007). "Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo's law". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (17): 7139–7144. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700034104. PMC 1855408. PMID 17438282. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/17/7139.