Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.
Ecology The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous, though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous.
For some specific examples, species of Winterschmidtia and Parawinterschmidtia are associated with beetles living under bark (especially bark beetles), Vespacarus and Kennethiella with eumenine wasps and Vidia with Megachile bees. The genus Psylloglyphus (which is in Oulenziinae) is associated with fleas.
Genera These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:
Acalvolia Fain, 1971 Allocalvolia Fain & Rack, 1987 Calvolia Oudemans, 1911 Congovidia Fain & Elsen, in Fain, 1971 Crabrovidia Zakhvatkin, 1941 Czenspinskia Oudemans, 1927 Ensliniella Vitzthum, 1925 Gambacarus Mahunka, 1975 Kennethiella Cooreman, 1954 Kurosaia Okabe & OConnor, 2002 Macroharpa Mostafa, 1970 Monobiacarus Baker & Cunliffe, 1960 Neocalvolia Hughes, 1970 Neosuidasia Ranganath & Channabasa, 1983 Neottiglyphus Volgin, 1974 Oulenzia Radford, 1950 Oulenziella Fan et al., 2015 Parawinterschmidtia Khaustov, 2000 Procalvolia Fain, 1971 Riemia Oudemans, 1925 Saproglyphus Berlese, 1890 Sphexicozela Mahunka, 1970 Trypetacarus Fain, 1971 Vespacarus Baker, 1960 Vidia Oudemans, 1905 Winterschmidtia Oudemans, 1923 Zethacarus Mostafa, 1971 Zethovidia Mostafa, 1970
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