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Podapolipidae
Podapolipidae is a family of mites. All members of the family Podapolipidae are specialized obligate external (and rarely internal) parasites of various insects, among which at least 20 genera are subelytral ectoparasites of different beetle families, mainly Carabidae, Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae, and Scarabaeidae.
10 branches of this family, most-observed first
Coccipolipus
genusCoccipolipus
Eutarsopolipus
genusEutarsopolipus
Locustacarus
genusLocustacarus
Archipolypus
genusArchipolypus
Chrysomelobia
genusChrysomelobia
Regenpolipus
genusRegenpolipus
Podapolipus
genusPodapolipus
Rhynchopolipus
genusRhynchopolipus
Podapolipoides
genusPodapolipoides
Wetapolipus
genusWetapolipus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 245214.