Sejida is a suborder of mites in the order Mesostigmata. There are about 5 families and 13 described species in Sejida.[1][2] The oldest known record of the group is an indeterminate deutonymph belonging to Sejidae from the mid Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar.[3]

Sejida
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Berzercon ferdinandi, New Zealand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Mesostigmata
Suborder: Sejida
Kramer, 1885
Superfamilies
  • Heterozerconoidea Berlese, 1892
  • Sejoidea Berlese, 1885

Families

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These five families belong to the suborder Sejida:

References

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  1. ^ "Sejida Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  2. ^ Beaulieu, Frédéric (2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Superorder Parasitiformes: In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. ISSN 1175-5326.
  3. ^ Joharchi, Omid; Vorontsov, Dmitry D.; Walter, David Evans (2021-09-14). "Oldest determined record of a mesostigmatic mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Sejidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber". Acarologia. 61 (3): 641–649. doi:10.24349/goj5-bzms. ISSN 0044-586X.

Further reading

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  • Krantz, G. W.; Walter, D. E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.