Belongs within: Cheyletoidea.
Contains: Radfordia.
The Myobiidae are a group of mites ectoparasitic on mammals, adapted for clinging to the hair of their host.
Characters (from Walter et al. 2009): Soft-bodied, dorsoventrally flattened mites with legs I with or without claws, shortened and modified for grasping hairs, immatures with ventral unpaired clasping organ on tarsus; legs II–IV with claws, but without empodia or tenent hairs; immatures with femora and genua fused on all legs; coxal seta 2a present; coxal fields vestigial. Prodorsum with four pairs of non-trichobothrial setae (vi, ve, si, se), idiosomatic shield and eyes absent. Chelicerae styliform, retractile within the gnathosomatic capsule, fused basally with each other and with the subcapitulum except at hypostomatic apex, remnant cheliceral seta (chb) or its alveolus present dorsally on capsule; palpi 2-segmented in adults, absent in immatures; gnathosoma of immatures proboscidiform. Female anal opening dorsal, separate from genital opening; male genito-anal opening dorsal, aedeagus typically elongate and generally directed forward. Dorsal lyrifissures (cupules) absent. With 5 active postembryonic instars: larva, protonymph, deutonymph, tritonymph, and adult.
<==Myobiidae [Myobioidea]WL09
|--Xenomyobia [Xenomyobiinae]WL09
| `--X. hirsutaWL09
|--Archemyobia [Archemyobiinae]WL09
| `--A. philanderWL09
|--Australomyobia Fain 1973H98 [AustralomyobiinaeWL09]
| |--A. dasycercus Fain 1973H98
| | |--A. d. dasycercusH98
| | `--A. d. antechinus Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
| |--A. dasyurus Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
| |--A. necopina (Domrow 1973) [=Archemyobia necopina]H98
| `--A. phascogale Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
`--MyobiinaeWL09
| i. s.: RadfordiaE38
| Amorphacarus Ewing 1938E38
| `--*A. elongatus (Poppe 1896) [=Myobia elongata]E38
|--ElephantulobiiniWL09
|--Protomyobia Ewing 1938E38 [ProtomyobiiniWL09]
| `--*P. claparedei (Poppe 1896) [=Myobia claparedei]E38
|--Myobia von Heyden 1826H98 [MyobiiniWL09]
| |--M. murismusculi (Schrank 1781)H98 (see below for synonymy)
| |--M. brevihamataE38
| |--M. caudata Banks 1909 [incl. M. canadensis Banks 1909]E38
| |--M. longa Ewing 1938E38
| |--M. otomyia Lawrence 1951S69
| |--M. poppeiE38
| `--M. simplex Ewing 1938E38
`--Acanthophthirius Perkins 1925H98 [AcanthophthiriiniWL09]
|--A. acinipus Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
|--A. alatus Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
|--A. clarus (Womersley 1941) [=Myobia clara, Binuncus clarus, Neomyobia clara, Radfordia clara]H98
|--A. intercalatus Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
|--A. minimus (Womersley 1941) [=Myobia minima]H98
`--A. womersleyi Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
Myobiidae incertae sedis:
Eudusbabekia phyllostomiK06
Acrobatobia Fain & Lukoschus 1976H98
`--A. queenslandica Fain & Lukoschus 1976H98
Binuncus Radford 1954H98
|--B. fortis Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
`--B. magnus (Radford 1934) [=Myobia magna, Neomyobia magna]H98
Calcarmyobia Radford 1948H98
|--C. australasiae Fain & Lukoschus 1980H98
|--C. miniopteris (Womersley 1941) [=Myobia miniopteris]H98
`--C. orianae Uchikawa 1985H98
Ewingana Radford 1952H98
`--E. bispinosa Radford 1952H98
|--E. b. bispinosaH98
`--E. b. longispina Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
Hipposiderobia Dusbábek 1968H98
|--H. ateri Uchikawa 1993H98
|--H. belli Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
|--H. brevisetosa Uchikawa 1993H98
`--H. semoni Uchikawa 1993H98
Metabinuncus Fain 1972H98
`--M. ateri Uchikawa 1992H98
Pteracarus Jameson & Chow 1952H98
|--P. chalinolobus (Womersley 1941) [=Myobia chalinolobus, Radfordia chalinolobus]H98
|--P. elegansBVP96
|--P. microdorsalis Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
`--P. miniopteri Uchikawa 1978H98
Pteropimyobia Fain 1973H98
`--P. pahangensis Fain 1973H98
|--P. p. pahangensisH98
`--P. p. quinquedens Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
Ugandobia Dusbábek 1968H98
`--U. australiensis Fain & Lukoschus 1979H98
Crocidurobia michaeliS-TK22, GHG91
Myobia murismusculi (Schrank 1781)H98 [=Pediculus murismusculiH98, *Myobia musculiE38, H98; incl. M. coarctata Heyden 1826E38, M. musculina Gervais 1844E38]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BVP96] Batalla, I. B., M. Vargas & O. J. Polaco. 1996. Arthropods associated with Myotis thysanodes Müller 1897, in San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Léon, México. In: Mitchell, R., D. J. Horn, G. R. Needham & W. C. Welbourn (eds) Acarology IX vol. 1. Proceedings pp. 109–111. Ohio Biological Survey: Columbus (Ohio).
[E38] Ewing, H. E. 1938. North American mites of the subfamily Myobiinae, new subfamily (Arachnida). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 40 (7): 180–197.
[GHG91] Gállego, M., E. Hidalgo & J. Ginés. 1991. Mites of the house mouse, Mus musculus L., in the north-eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula in Spain. In: Schuster, R., & P. W. Murphy (eds) The Acari: Reproduction, development and life-history strategies pp. 453–454. Chapman & Hall: London.
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[K06] Kwiecinski, G. G. 2006. Phyllostomus discolor. Mammalian Species 801: 1–11.
[S69] Steyskal, G. C. 1969. The mistreatment of the Latin genitive case in forming names of parasites. Systematic Zoology 18 (3): 339–342.
[S-TK22] Szudarek-Trepto, N., A. Kaźmierski, A. Skoracka, M. Lewandowski & J. Dabert. 2022. Molecular phylogeny supports the monophyly of the mite supercohort Eupodides (Acariformes: Trombidiformes) and greatly coincides with traditional morphological definition of the taxon. Annales Zoologici 72 (4): 757–786.
[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.