Bibliography for Asca Von Heyden, 1826

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• Beaulieu, F. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Predation in suspended and forest floor soils: observations on Australian mesostigmatic mites. Acarologia 47: 43–54
• Beaulieu, F. & Weeks, A.R. 2007. Free-living mesostigmatic mites in Australia: their roles in biological control and bioindication. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47: 460–478
• Beaulieu., F., Walter, D.E., Proctor, H.C. & Kitching, R.L. 2010. The canopy starts at 0.5 m: predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) differ between rainforest floor soil and suspended soil at any height. Biotropica 42: 704–709 + supplementary pages 1–13
• Colloff, M.J., Lindsay, E.A. & Cook, D.C. 2013. Natural pest control in citrus as an ecosystem service: Integrating ecology, economics and management at the farm scale. Biological Control 67: 170-177 + supplementary data.
• Domrow, R. 1957. Some Acarina Mesostigmata from the Great Barrier Reef. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 197-216
• Halliday, R.B. 2001. Mesostigmatid mite fauna of Jenolan Caves, New South Wales (Acari: Mesostigmata). Australian Journal of Entomology 40: 299-311
• Halliday, R.B., Walter, D.E. & Lindquist, E.E. 1998. Revision of the Australian Ascidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 1-54
• Heyden, C.H.G. von 1826. Versuch einer systematichen Einteilung der Acariden. Isis 18: 608-613
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• Karg, W. 1979. Zur kenntnis der raubmilbengattungen Cheiroseius Berlese, 1916, Asca v. Heyden, 1826 und Halolaelaps Berlese et Trouessart, 1889 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 55: 251-267
• Karg, W. 1996. Neue Arten aus Raubmilbengattungen der Gamasina Leach (Acarina, Parasitiformes) mit Indikationen zum Entwicklungsalter. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 72: 149–195
• Kinnear, A. & Tongway, D. 2004. Grazing impacts on soil mites of semi-arid chenopod shrublands in Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 56: 63–82
• Lindquist, E.E., Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. 2009. Order Mesostigmata. pp.124-232 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp.
• Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65.
• Manwaring, M., Wallace, H.M. & Weaver, H.J. 2018. Effects of a mulch layer on the assemblage and abundance of mesostigmatan mites and other arthropods in the soil of a sugarcane agro‑ecosystem in Australia. Experimental and Applied Acarology 74: 291-300.
• Manwaring, M., Walter, D. & Stirling, G.R. 2015. Microarthropoda as predators of nematode pests in sugarcane soils: Literature review and preliminary studies. Proceedings of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 37: 212-217.
• Moraes, G.J. de, Britto, E.P.J., Mineiro, J.L.de C. & Halliday, B. 2016. Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa 4112: 1-299.
• Osler, G.H.R. & Beattie, A.J. 2001. Contribution of oribatid and mesostigmatid soil mites in ecologically based estimates of global species richness. Austral Ecology 26: 70–79
• Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254
• Ryke, P.A.J. 1961. A review of the genus Asca von Heyden with descriptions of a new species (Acarina : Mesostigmata : Rhodacaridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 167: 127-135
• Stone, C. & Simpson, J.A. 1990. Species associations in Ips grandicollis galleries in Pinus taeda. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 20: 75-96.
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• Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)
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• Walter, D.E. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.
• Walter, D.E., Halliday, R.B. & Lindquist, E.E. 1993. A review of the genus Asca (Acarina: Ascidae) in Australia, with descriptions of three new leaf-inhabiting species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 1327-1347
• Walter, D.E. & Lindquist, E.E. 1995. The distributions of parthenogenetic ascid mites (Acari: Parasitiformes) do not support the biotic uncertainty hypothesis. Experimental and Applied Acarology 19: 423-442
• Walter, D.E. & Stirling, G.R. 2018. Microarthropods in Australian sugarcane soils: A survey with emphasis on the Mesostigmata as potential regulators of nematode populations. Acarologia 58: 673-682.
• Womersley, H. 1956. On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 42: 505-599
• Wood, T.G. 1966. Three new species of Asca v. Heyden (Acari: Blattisocidae) from New Zealand, and records of Asca from some southern Pacific islands. New Zealand Journal of Science 9: 41-49

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