Snail Mite Riccardoella Reaumuri (Acariformes: Prostigmata
26 Edaphologia, No. 105: 26–27, September 30, 2019 Fain, A. and van Goethem, J. L. 1986. Les acariens du genre Ric- Snail mite Riccardoella reaumuri cardoella Berlese, 1923 parasites du poumon de mollusques (Acariformes: Prostigmata: gastéropodes pulmonés terrestres. Acarologia, 27: 125–140. Ereynetidae) as free living Fain, A. and Klompen, J. S. H. 1990. Riccardoella (Proriccadoella) triodopsis nov. spec. (Acari: Ereynetidae) from the USA. from Shikoku Island, Japan. Acarologia, 31: 187–190. Nakamura, Y., Ishikawa, K., Shiba, M., Fujikawa, T., Ono, H., There are eight described species of mites belong to the Tamura H. and Morikawa, K. 2006. Soil animals of the 88 genus Riccardoella Berlese, 1923 (Ereynetidae Oudemans, BUDDHIST temples in Shikoku Islands. Memoirs of the Fac- 1931) in the world. A total of six species of the genus are ulty of Agriculture, Ehime University, 51: 25–48. known to infect lungs of terrestrial gastropods (Turk and Turk, F. A. and Phillips, S. 1946. A Monograph of the Slug Mite̶ Phillips 1946; Fain and van Goethem 1986; Fain and Klom- Riccardoella limacum (Schrank.). In Proceedings of the Zoo- pen 1990; Fain and Baker 2004; Waki et al. 2018a), and the logical Society of London, 115: 448–472. remaining two species (R. canadensis Fain & van Goethem, Waki, T., Shimano, S. and Hiruta, S. F. 2018a. A new species of 1986 and R. zadielensis André, Ducarme & Lebrun, 2004) the genus Riccardoella (Acari: Prostigmata: Ereynetidae) have been found and described from soil as free-living mites. from the land snail Tauphaedusa tau (Gastropoda: Clausli- In Japan, two parasitic species were collected and recorded idae) in Japan.
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