Large mites on wild mushrooms in Britain

Saloña-Bordas, M. I., Garthwaite, L. F., Perotti, M. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3769-7126 and Braig, H. R. (2022) Large mites on wild mushrooms in Britain. In: XVI International Congress of Acarology, 1-5 Dec 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 177-186. doi: 10.11646/ZOOSYMPOSIA.22.1.119 (Zoosymposia, 22, ISSN 1178-9913)

Abstract/Summary

Fungivorous mites and other acari associated with mushroom colonies are known since the beginning of acarology. Most of them are tiny and difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye. Most are myceliophagous mites (Behan & Hill, 1978; Renker et al., 2005; Werner et al., 2018). Large mites visible unaided on the stems, caps, or gills of the fleshy fruiting bodies of life wild mushrooms have been widely observed by naturalists but have rarely been documented in the acarological literature.