Endeostigmata is a suborder of acariform mites. There are about ten families in Endeostigmata. The grouping is strongly suspected to be paraphyletic, containing unrelated early diverging lineages of mites.
Taxonomy
Source:
- Suborder Endeostigmata Reuter, 1909 (5 superfamilies, 10 families, 27 genera, 108 species)
- Infraorder Bimichaliida Oconnor, 1984 (1 superfamily)
- Superfamily Alycoidea G. Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877 (3 families)
- Family Alycidae G. Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877 (6 genera, 29 species)
- Family Nanorchestidae Grandjean, 1937 (5 genera, 45 species)
- Family Proterorhagiidae Lindquist & Palacios-Vargas, 1991 (1 genus, 1 species)
- Superfamily Alycoidea G. Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877 (3 families)
- Infraorder Nematalycina Lindquist, Krantz & Walter, 2009 (1 superfamily)
- Superfamily Nematalycoidea Strenke, 1954 (2 families)
- Family Micropsammidae Coineau & Theron, 1983 (1 genus, 1 species)
- Family Nematalycidae Strenke, 1954 (4 genera, 4 species)
- Family Proteonematalycidae Kethley, 1989 (1 genus, 1 species)
- Superfamily Nematalycoidea Strenke, 1954 (2 families)
- Infraorder Terpnacarida Oconnor, 1984 (2 superfamilies)
- Superfamily Oehserchestoidea Kethley, 1977 (1 family)
- Family Oehserchestidae Kethley, 1977 (1 genus, 4 species)
- Family Grandjeanicidae Kethley, 1977 (1 genus, 3 species)
- Superfamily Terpnacaroidea Grandjean, 1939 (1 family)
- Family Terpnacaridae Grandjean, 1939 (2 genera, 11 species)
- Superfamily Oehserchestoidea Kethley, 1977 (1 family)
- Infraorder Alicorhagiida Oconnor, 1984 (1 superfamily)
- Superfamily Alicorhagioidea Grandjean, 1939 (1 family)
- Family Alicorhagiidae Grandjean, 1939 (5 genera, 9 species)
- Superfamily Alicorhagioidea Grandjean, 1939 (1 family)
- Infraorder Bimichaliida Oconnor, 1984 (1 superfamily)
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