Genus Crotonia Thorell, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crotonia Thorell, T. 1876. Sopra alcuni Opilioni (Phalangidea) d'Europa e dell'Asia occidentale, con un quadro dei generi europei di quest'Ordine. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 8: 452-508.

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Crotonia have been reported from Australia by Palmer & Norton (1991) and Perdomo et al. (2012). Colloff (2015) reviewed the systematics and biogeography of the species that occur in Australia nd New Zealand.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; Vic: Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

General References

Colloff, M.J. 2015. The Crotonia fauna of New Zealand revisited (Acari: Oribatida): taxonomy, phylogeny, ecological distribution and biogeography. Zootaxa 3947(1): 1-29.

Palmer, S.C. & Norton, R.A. 1991. Taxonomic, geographic and seasonal distribution of thelytokous parthenogenesis in the Desmonomata (Acari : Oribatida). Experimental and Applied Acarology 12: 67-81

Perdomo, G., Evans, A., Maraun, M., Sunnucks, P. & Thompson, R. 2012. Mouthpart morphology and trophic position of microarthropods from soils and mosses are strongly correlated. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 53: 56–63

History of changes