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Rhagidiidae

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Description

Rhagidiidae is a family of prostig mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 12 genera and 9 described species in Rhagidiidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhagidiidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6064	https://www.gbif.org/species/6064
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	309132	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=309132

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Prostigmata : Rhagidiidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Acariformes : Rhagidiidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Chelicerata	Heymons 1901
-	Euchelicerata	Weygoldt and Paulus 1979
-	Prosomapoda	Lamsdell 2013
class	Xiphosura
order	Xiphosurida	Latreille 1802
-	Planaterga	Lamsdell 2013
-	Dekatriata	Lamsdell 2013
-	Sclerophorata	Kamenz et al. 2011
class	Arachnida	Lamarck 1801
-	Poecilophysidea	Pepato et al. 2010
order	Acariformes
suborder	Trombidiformes	Reuter 1909
infraorder	Prostigmata
-	Eupodides	Krantz 1978
superfamily	Eupodoidea	Koch 1842
family	Rhagidiidae	Oudemans 1922

Scientific Name

Rhagidiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rhagidiidae	family	belongs to Eupodoidea	stated with evidence	Judson and Wunderlich, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Arachnida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arachnida)

Vision

limited (based on Xiphosurida)

Diet

carnivore (based on Xiphosura)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Arachnida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Dunlop, D. Penney, and D. Jekel. 2013. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In N. Platnick (ed.), The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhagidiidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Coccorhagidia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Crassocheles genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Evadorhagidia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Foveacheles genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hammenia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Janes genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Latoempodia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parallelorhagidia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pilorhagidia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Poecilophysis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Rhagidia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Robustocheles genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Shibaia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thoria genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Traegaardhia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Troglocheles genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zachardia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1922	Rhagidiidae Oudemans
2003	Rhagidiidae Judson and Wunderlich p. 148
2013	Rhagidiidae Dunlop et al. p. 72

References

Dunlop J. A., Penney D., et al (2013) A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Judson M., Wunderlich J. (2003) Rhagidiidae (Acari, Eupodoidea) from Baltic amber, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 46 Suppl, 147-152

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Krantz, G. W., and D. E. Walter, eds., 2009: null. A Manual of Acarology, 3rd Edition. viii+807. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Texas A&M University (2015) Biology Catalog. Online: http://bugs.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Zhang, Z.-Q. & al. (2011) Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 129-138 - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2015) Fauna Europaea version 2.6. Web Service available online at http://www.faunaeur.org - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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