Tetranychoidea

Tetranychoidea Temporal range:
Spider mite, Bryobia praetiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Trombidiformes
Suborder:	Prostigmata
Infraorder:	Eleutherengona
Superfamily:	Tetranychoidea Donnadieu, 1876

Tetranychoidea is a superfamily of mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 5 families and more than 2,200 described species in Tetranychoidea.

Petrobia

Families

These five families belong to the superfamily Tetranychoidea:

• Allochaetophoridae
• Linoteranidae
• Tenuipalpidae
• Tetranychidae (spider mites)
• Tuckerellidae

Further reading

• Halliday, R.B.; O'connor, O'B.M.; Baker, A.S. (2000). Raven, P.H. (ed.). "Global diversity of mites". Nature and Human Society—the Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy Press: 192–203. doi:10.17226/6142.
• Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
• Pepato, A.R.; Klimov, P.B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.
• Skoracki, M.; Zabludovskaya, S.; Bochkov, A.V. (2012). "A review of Prostigmata (Acariformes: Trombidiformes) permanently associated with birds". Acarina. 20: 67–107.
• Zhang, Z.-Q.; Fan, Q.-H.; Pesic, V.; Smit, H.; et al. (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148.