About

All specimens for this project were provided by:
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute and The Royal Alberta Museum

Globally there are 11,000 described species of Mesostigmata. Here in Alberta 107 species/morphospecies in 45 genera have been identified for this project thus far.

A previous species list of Mesostigmata created by Dr. Dave Walter can be found here. This lists consists of his own identifications, CNC records and findings from past studies.

Taxonomic literature used to identify different genera and species can be found in References. However, not all literature is available as some unpublished keys were obtained at the Acarology Summer Program (Mesostigmata Week) at the Ohio State University. A taxonomic key for Mesostigmata to the family level can be found in Krantz and Walter (2009).