Enarthronota is a suborder of mites in the order Oribatida. There are about 14 families and more than 450 described species in Enarthronota.

Families

These 14 families belong to the suborder Enarthronota:

  • Arborichthoniidae J. & P. Balogh, 1992
  • Atopochthoniidae Grandjean, 1949
  • Brachychthoniidae Thor, 1934
  • Cosmochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947 (cosmochthoniids)
  • Eniochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947
  • Haplochthoniidae Hammen, 1959
  • Heterochthoniidae Grandjean, 1954
  • Hypochthoniidae Berlese, 1910
  • Nothridae Berlese, 1896
  • Pediculochelidae Lavoipierre, 1946
  • Phyllochthoniidae Travé, 1967
  • Protoplophoridae Ewing, 1917
  • Pterochthoniidae Grandjean, 1950
  • Sphaerochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947

Further reading

  • Marshall, V. G.; Reeves, R. M.; Norton, R. A. (1987). "Catalogue of the Oribatida (Acari) of continental United States and Canada". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 119: i–418. doi:.
  • Pepato, A. R.; Klimov, P. B. (2015). . BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15: 178. doi:. PMC . PMID .
  • Krantz, G. W.; Walter, D. E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
  • Halliday, R. B.; O'connor, O'B. M.; Baker, A. S. (2000). "Global diversity of mites". In Raven, P. H. (ed.). Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy Press. pp. 192–203. doi:. ISBN 978-0-309-06555-9.

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