General
Evans GO. 1955. A collection of mesostigmatid mites from Alaska. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 2: 17-307.
Karg W. 1993. Acari (Acarina), Milben. Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta), Cohors Gamasina Leach, Raubmilben second revised ed. In: Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, vol 59. Teil. G. Fischer-Verlag, Jena/Stuttgart/New York
Krantz GW. and Walter DE. 2009. A manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. 1-807.
Lindquist EE and Evans GO. 1965. Taxonomic concepts in the Ascidae, with a modified setal nomenclature for the idiosoma of the Gamasina (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 47: 1–64.
Ameroseiidae
Halliday RB. 1997. Revision of the Australian Ameroseiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 10: 179-201.
Narita J. and De Moraes G. 2016. A new species of Epicriopsis Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ameroseiidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species of the genus. Zootaxa. 4114:5 66-477–484.
Narita J., Abduch WY., De Moraes G. and Klingen I. 2015. Description of a new species of Ameroseius Berlese (Acari: Ameroseiidae) from Norway, with a key to related species. Zootaxa. 4034:390–398.
Arctacaridae
Makarova OL. 2003. A new genus and three new species of the mite family Arctacaridae (Parasitiformes, Mesostigmata) from North America. Entomological Review. 83: 868-886.
Ascidae
Gwiazdowicz DJ. and Halliday RB. 2008. The Australian species of Iphidozercon (Acari: Ascidae). Zootaxa. 1921: 47-68.
Gwiazdowicz DJ. and Marchenko II. 2012. Two new species of Iphidozercon (Acari: Ascidae) with a key to females. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 58: 41-52.
Hajizadeh J., Mortazavi S. and Nazari M. 2014. One new species of the genus Iphidozercon (Acari: Ascidae) with a key to world species. International Journal of Acarology. 40: 263-367.
Hurlbutt HW. 1963. The genus Asca von Heyden (Acarina: Mesostigmata) in North America, Hawaii and Europe. Acarologia. 5: 480–518.
Keum E., Kang M. and Jung C. 2015. New record of Arctoseius cetratus (Sellnick, 1940) (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) phoretic to Sciarid fly from mushroom culture in Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology. 33: 209-214.
Lindquist EE. 1961 Taxonomic and biological studies of mites of the genus Arctoseius Thor from Barrow, Alaska (Acarina: Aceosejidae). Hilgardia. 30: 301-350
Lindquist EE. and Makarova OL. 2011. Two new circumpolar mite species of the genus Arctoseius Thor (Parasitiformes, Mesostigmata, Ascidae). Entomological Review. 91: 1054–1072.
Makarova OL. 2000. To a study of the genus Arctoseius (Parasitiformes, Ascidae) from the Far Nort: 2. Description of A. productus sp. . and A. babenkoi sp. N. and key to high Arctic species. Entomological Review. 80: S131-S142.
Makarova OL. and Huhta V. 2017. A new species of Arctoseius Thor, 1930 (Acari: Ascidae) from taiga regions of the Palaearctic, with a key to Arctoseius species of Fennoscandia, NW Europe. Zootaxa. 3268: 554-562
Makarova OL. and Lindquist EE. 2013. A new species of the gamasid mite Arctoseius Thor, 1930 (Parasitiformes, Mesostigmata, Ascidae) from Russia with a key to the multidentatus species-group. Zookeys. 313: 9-24.
Mašán P. 2014. A new European species of the genus Arctoseius Thor 1930 (Acari, Mesostigmata, Ascidae) with a key to the cetratus group. International Journal of Acarology. 40: 397-401.
Walter D.E. 2003. The genus Gamasellodes (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae): New Australian and North American Species. Systematic and Applied Acarology Special Publications. 15: 1-10.
Blattisociidae
Christian A. and Karg W. 2006. The predatory mite genus Lasioseius Berlese, 1916 (Acari, Gamasina). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Natrkundemuseums Görlitz. 77: 99–250.
Kazemi S., Payandeh M. and Saberi S. 2016. A new species of Platyseius Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Blattisociidae) from Iran, and a key to the world species of the genus. Zootaxa. 4139: 566–574.
Lindquist EE. and Moraza ML. 2010. Revised diagnonsis of the family Blattisociidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseioidea), with a key to its genera and description of a new fungus-inhabiting genus from Costa Rica. Zootaxa. 2479: 1-21.
Dinychidae
Hirschmann W., Wagrowska-Adamczyk B. & Zirngiebl-Nicol I. 1984. Gangsystematik der Parasitiformes Teil 467. Adulten- Gruppen und Adultenbestimmungstabelle von 20 Dinychus-Arten. Neuzeichnung von Dinychus tetraphyllus Berlese, 1903 (Dinychini, Uropodinae). Acarologie, Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde. 31: 127–130.
Kontschán J. 2010. Dinychus empalmensis n. sp. from Costa Rica with notes on the Neotropical Dinychus species (Acari: Uropodina: Dinychidae). International Journal of Acarology. 36: 413–417.
Kontschán J. 2015. First record of Dinychus bincheaecarinatus Hirschmann, Wagrowska-Adamczyk & Zirngiebl-Nicol in Romania: Notes on the morphology and taxonomy and a contribution to the Dinychidae fauna of Romania (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina). North-Western Journal of Zoology. 11: 86–91.
Wagrowska-Adamczyk B. and Hirschmann, W. 1984. Untersuchungen zur Variabilitat der Postmarginalhaare von Dinychus perforatus Kramer 1886 (Dinychidae, Atrichopygidiina). Acarologie, Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde: 31: 125-127.
Laelapidae
Evans GO. and Till WM. 1966. Studies on the British Dermanyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) Part II. Classification. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 14: 107-370.
Joharchi O., Halliday B. and Saboori A. 2012. Three new species of Laelaspis Berlese from Iran (Acari: Laelapidae), with a review of the species occurring in the Western Palaearctic region. Journal of Natural History. 46: 1999-2018.
Kavianpour M., Nemati A., Gwiazdowicz DJ. and Kocheili F. 2013. A new species of the genus Gaeolaelaps (Acari, Mesostigmata, Laelapidae) from Iran. Zookeys. 277: 1–11.
Ramroodi S., Hajizadeh J. and Joharchi O. 2014. Two new species of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) from Iran. Zootaxa. 3847: 533-544.
Vatankhah F., Nemati A., Esfandiari M. and Shishehbor P. 2016. Description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) from Iran, with a key to world species of the genus with short peritremes. Zootaxa. 4121: 566–574.
Microgyniidae
Krantz GW. 1961. A re-evalutation of the Microgynioidea, with a description of a new species of Microgynium (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Acarologia. 3:1-10.
Trägårdh I. 1942. Microgyniina, a new group of Mesostigmata. Entomologisk Tidskrift. 62: 120-133.
Pachylaelapidae
Halliday RB. 1997. Revision of the genus Zygoseius Berlese (Acarina: Pachylaelapidae). Acarologia. 1: 3-20.
Mašán P. and Halliday R.B. 2013. Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa. 3776: 1-66.
Mašán P., Uzbek H.H. and, Fend’a P. 2016. Two new species of Pachylaelaps Berlese, 1888 from the Iberian Peninsula, with a key to European species (Acari, Gamasida, Pachylaelapidae). ZooKeys. 603: 71-95.
Phytoseiidae
Chant D. and Hansell R. 1971. The genus Amblyseius (Acarina: Phytoseiidae) in Canada and Alaska. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 49: 703–758.
Chant D. and McMurtry J. 2007. Illustrated keys and diagnoses for the genera and subgenera of the Phytoseiidae of the world (Acari: Mesostigmata). Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield. 1-219.
Denmark H. and Evans G. 2011. Phytoseiidae of North America and Hawaii (Acari: Mesostigmata). Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield. 1-451.
Sejidae
Walter DE. 2013. A new genus and family of sejine mites (Acari, Parasitiformes, Mesostigmata, Sejoidea) based on new species from Lord Howe Island and Brazil, and a redescription of Sejus americanus (Banks, 1902). Zootaxa. 3691: 301-323.
Trachytidae
*Hirschmann W. and Zirngibel-Nicol I. 1965. Gangsystematik der Parasitiformes. Teil 9. Uropodiden. Bestimmungstabellen von 300 Uropodiden-Arten (Larven, Protonymphen, Deutonymphen, Weibchen, Männchen). Acarologie, Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde. 8: 1-33.
*Hirschmann W. and Zirngibel-Nicol I. 1969. Gangsystematik der Parasitiformes. Teil 42. Sechs neue Trachytes-Arten. Acarologie, Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde. 12: 36-39.
Mašán P. 2003. Identification key to Central European species of Trachytes (Acari: Uropodina) with redescriptions, ecology and distribution of Slovak species. European Journal of Entomology. 100: 435-448.
*setal nomenclature used for the species page
Zerconidae
Díaz-Aguilar I. and Ujvári Z. 2010. New zerconid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Canada with a review of the genus Mixozercon Halašková, 1963. Zootaxa. 2555: 1-29.
Halašková V. 1977. A revision of the genera of the family Zerconidae (Acari: Gamasides) and descriptions of new taxa from several areas of nearctic region. Studie ČSAV, Praha.
Sikora B. 2014. Mites of the family Zerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of the nearctic region. Annales Zoologici. 64: 131-250.
Ujvári Z. 2011. Comparative study on the taxonomic relevance of gnathosomal structures in the family Zerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Opuscula Zoologica Budapest. 42: 75-93.
Mesostigmatid Soil Mites of Alberta 