Sejida is a suborder of mites in the order Mesostigmata. There are about 5 families and 13 described species in Sejida.[1][2] The oldest known record of the group is an indeterminate deutonymph belonging to Sejidae from the mid Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar.[3]
| Sejida Temporal range:
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| Berzercon ferdinandi, New Zealand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Mesostigmata |
| Suborder: | Sejida Kramer, 1885 |
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Families edit
These five families belong to the suborder Sejida:
- Discozerconidae Berlese, 1910
- Heterozerconidae Berlese, 1892
- Ichthyostomatogasteridae Sellnick, 1953
- Sejidae Berlese, 1885
- Uropodellidae Camin, 1955
References edit
- ^ "Sejida Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ^ Beaulieu, Frédéric (2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Superorder Parasitiformes: In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3148. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. ISSN 1175-5326.
- ^ Joharchi, Omid; Vorontsov, Dmitry D.; Walter, David Evans (2021-09-14). "Oldest determined record of a mesostigmatic mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Sejidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber". Acarologia. 61 (3): 641–649. doi:10.24349/goj5-bzms. ISSN 0044-586X.
Further reading edit
- Krantz, G. W.; Walter, D. E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.