Belongs within: Hygrobatidae.
Atractides is a genus of water mites found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, with smaller numbers of species in Africa and South America (Walter et al. 2009).
<==Atractides Koch 1837S86 |--A. (Atractides)S86 | |--A. (A.) acutirostrisS86 | | |--A. a. acutirostrisS86 | | `--A. a. gibberimarginatus Viets 1955S86 | |--A. (A.) asticae Petrova 1968S86 | |--A. (A.) brasiliensis (Lundblad 1937)RFF05 | |--A. (A.) cagiallensis van Rendsburg 1971S86 | |--A. (A.) cerberus Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) cisternarum (Viets 1935)S86 | |--A. (A.) denticulatus (Walter 1947)S86 | |--A. (A.) elegans (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) firmus (Walter 1947)S86 | |--A. (A.) fonticolus (Viets 1920)GS96, GS91 [=A. nodipalpis fonticolusGS91] | | |--A. f. fonticolusGS96 | | `--A. f. corsicusGS96 | |--A. (A.) gracilipes (Angelier 1951)S86 | |--A. (A.) hyogoensis Imamura 1957S86 | |--A. (A.) hyporheicus Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) kotoensis Imamura 1983S86 | |--A. (A.) latipalpis (Motas & Tanasachi 1946)S86 | |--A. (A.) latipes (Szalay 1935)S86 | |--A. (A.) longiporus Petrova 1967S86 | |--A. (A.) longus (Walter 1947)S86 | |--A. (A.) losoensis van Rendsburg 1971S86 | |--A. (A.) magnipalpis van Rendsburg 1971S86 | |--A. (A.) magnirostris (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) microcavaticus Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) microphthalmus (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) miurai Imamura 1956S86 | |--A. (A.) nitraensis Laska 1959S86 | |--A. (A.) nodipalpis (Thor 1899)S86, GS91 | | |--A. n. nodipalpisS86 | | `--A. n. stygophilus Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) orghidani Motas & Tanasachi 1960S86 | |--A. (A.) phreaticus (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) pilosus Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) plaumanni Lundblad 1953RFF05 | | |--A. p. plaumanniRFF05 | | `--A. p. novus Lundblad 1953RFF05 | |--A. (A.) porosus (Lundblad 1936)RFF05 | | |--A. p. porosusRFF05 | | `--A. p. columbianus Lundblad 1953RFF05 | |--A. (A.) primitivus (Walter 1947)S86 | |--A. (A.) prosiliens (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) psammophilus Schwoerbel 1961 [incl. A. longipes Schwoerbel 1961 non Halbert 1944]S86 | |--A. (A.) pumilus (Szalay 1946)S86 | |--A. (A.) pygmaeus (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) radilofus Cook 1980S86 | |--A. (A.) rostratus Lundblad 1953RFF05 | |--A. (A.) sabulonis Cook 1967S86 | |--A. (A.) schadei (Lundblad 1942)RFF05 | |--A. (A.) schlienzi Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) schwoerbeli Orghidan & Gruia 1983S86 | |--A. (A.) similis (Angelier 1949)S86 | |--A. (A.) sinuatipes Lundblad 1953RFF05 | |--A. (A.) sokolowi (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) subterraneus (Viets 1932)S86 | | |--A. s. subterraneusS86 | | |--A. s. japonensis Imamura 1958S86 | | `--A. s. obovalis (Szalay 1946)S86 | |--A. (A.) szalayi (Motas & Tanasachi 1948)S86 | |--A. (A.) talinarostris Cook 1967S86 | |--A. (A.) trapeziformis Schwoerbel 1961S86 | |--A. (A.) validipalpis (Lundblad 1937)RFF05 | | |--A. v. validipalpisRFF05 | | `--A. v. crassipes (Lundblad 1942)RFF05 | |--A. (A.) wevamus Cook 1980S86 | |--A. (A.) yukii Cook 1967S86 | `--A. (A.) zoldomus Cook 1980S86 `--A. (Octomegapus Viets 1926)S86 |--A. (O.) aioiensis Imamura 1957S86 `--A. (O.) biscutatus Cook 1967S86 Atractides incertae sedis: A. anomalusG49 A. distansS86 A. donipalpisVBB91 |--A. d. donipalpisVBB91 `--A. d. robustus (Sokolow 1940)VBB91 A. groutiWL09 A. lacustrisBK91 A. latisetusDPD16 A. octoporus Piersig 1904GS91 A. ovalisBK91 A. pavesii Maglio 1905GS91 A. pennatusCS91 A. polyporusS86 A. spinipes (Koch 1837)GS91 A. subasperGS96 A. tembolusWL09
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
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[CS91] Cicolani, B., & A. Di Sabatino. 1991. Sensitivity of water mites to water pollution. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 465–474. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
[DPD16] Dabert, M., H. Proctor & J. Dabert. 2016. Higher-level molecular phylogeny of the water mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 101: 75–90.
[GS96] Gerecke, R., & A. Di Sabatino. 1996. Historical zoogeography and evolution of habitat preference in water mites (Hydracarina) of the central Mediterranean region. In: Mitchell, R., D. J. Horn, G. R. Needham & W. C. Welbourn (eds) Acarology IX vol. 1. Proceedings pp. 523–527. Ohio Biological Survey: Columbus (Ohio).
[GS91] Gerecke, R., & J. Schwoerbel. 1991. Water quality and water mites (Acari, Actinedida) in the Upper Danube region, 1959-1984. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 483–491. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
[G49] Grandjean, F. 1949. Remarques sur l’évolution numérique des papilles génitales et de l’organe de Claparède chez les hydracariens. Bulletin du Muséum, 2e série, 21 (1): 75–82.
[RFF05] Rosso de Ferradás, B. & H. R. Fernández. 2005. Elenco y biogeografía de los ácaros acuáticos (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) de Sudamérica. Graellsia 61 (2): 181–224.
[S86] Schwoerbel, J. 1986. Acari: “Hydrachnellae”. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 652–696. E. J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys: Leiden.
[VBB91] Valdecasas, A. G., A. Baltanás & E. Bello. 1991. A preliminary assessment of single rocks for sampling water mites. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 503–507. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
[WL09] Walter, D. E., E. E. Lindquist, I. M. Smith, D. R. Cook & G. W. Krantz. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3rd ed. pp. 233–420. Texas Tech University Press.