Qualitative and quantitative assessment of mites (Acari) in domiciliary dust in rural dwellings in the "Zona da Mata" region, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Biological Aspects of the Cunaxid mite, Pulaeus pseudominutus When Fed on Different Diets at Different Temperatures

“…Tagore and Putatunda (2003) reported that cunaxid mites were important predators in the ornamental plants in Haryana. De Oliveira and Daemon (2003) found that cunaxid mites are important component of fauna in the dust samples from the rural dwellings of Zona da Mata region Brazil. Very little is known about the biology of the Pulaeus species.…”

A review of Cunaxidae (Acariformes, Trombidiformes): Histories and diagnoses of subfamilies and genera, keys to world species, and some new locality records

“…Cunaxids occur in most terrestrial habitats, including soil and leaf litter (Den Heyer 1977a, Luxton 1982; Javan et al 2012); moss and lichen (Sepasgosarian 1984, Tseng 1980); on vegetation (Miller 1925, Swift and Goff 2001, Ferla and Moraes 2002) including coniferous trees (Lehman 1982), tropical trees (Castro and Moraes 2007) including guava trees (Mallikarjunappa and Nageshchandra 1990), Ferla and Moraes 2002), mango trees (Mohamed et al 2014), coconut trees (Mariau and Biggins 2001; da Silva et al 2014), and rubber trees (Hernandes and Feres 2006), ornamental plants (Tagore and Putatunda 2003), invasive weeds (Walter 1999), agricultural plants such as citrus trees (Muma 1960, Olivier 1968, Ramsey et al 1972a, Soliman and Mahfood 1978, Vacante and Nucifora 1986, Quilici et al 1997, Grout and Ueckermann 1999, Ferla and Moraes 2002, Fadamiro et al 2009), deciduous fruit trees (Nesbitt 1946, Garman 1948, Lord 1949, Ramsey et al 1972b, Quilici et al 1997, Ferla and Moraes 1998, Ferla and Moraes 2002; Shakhsi Zare et al 2012), cotton (Kuznetzov and Sizova 1978), strawberries (Ferla et al 2007), grape vineyards (Schruft 1971, Jubb et al 1985, Molnar 1997), alfalfa fields (Badieritakis et al 2014), and plants in urban settings (Lahiri et al 2004); vertebrate nests (Garman 1948, Gupta and Chattopadhyay 1978, Gupta and Paul 1985, Estebanes-Gonzales 1997); caves (Cooreman 1954, Turk 1972, Zacharda 1978); animal debris (Corpuz Raros et al 1988, Taha et al 1988); tree holes (Atyeo 1958, Lin and Zhang 2002); house dust (Oliveria and Daemon 2003); and stored food products (Huges 1976, Tseng 1980, Fan 1992). Individual species, however, are thought to be restricted to a particular habitat.…”

Subfamily Coleoscirinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae), with description of one new species from Pakistan

“…Cunaxidae occupy diverse habitats and have been reported from all parts of the world ( Walter and Kaplan 1991 ; Swift 1996 ; Walter 1999 ; Arbabi et al . 2002 ; Tagore and Putatunda 2003 ; de-Oliveira and Daemon 2003 ; Tagore and Putatunda 2003 ; Sionti 2003 ; Sergeyenko 2005 , 2006, 2009, 2011; Mejia-Recamier and Palacios-Vargas 2007; Corpuz-Raros 2007 ; Kaluz 2009 ; Den Heyer 2011 ; Skvarla et al 2011 ; Skvarla and Dowling 2012 ). …”