TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - The evolution of the family Ameronothridae (Acari: Oribatei). l. Morphological aspects VL - 19 IS - 1 SP - 161 EP - 166 PY - 1977 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Weigmann, G. AU - Schulte, G. UR - https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=3018 DA - 1977-09-30 KW - Acari KW - Ameronothridae KW - Phylogeny KW - Comparative morphology KW - systematic relationships AB - The morphological characters of the genera until now assigned to the families Ameronothridae, Podacaridae and Aquanothridae were critically surveyed. Groups of genera did not differ by decided gaps of morphological characters, and so these groups should not be regarded as monophyletic groups of the rank of families. The unification of the genera Ameronothrus, Aquanothnts, Podacarus, Alaskozetes, Halozetes, Antarcticola and Pseztdantarcticola in the single family Ameronothridae is proposed. A revision of Alaskozetes would probably result in its synonymy with Podacarus. ER -