
%0 Journal Article
%A Harvey, MS 
%T Pezidae, a new freshwater mite family from Australia (Acarina : Halacaroidea)
%J Invertebrate Systematics
%D 1989/09/01
%V 3
%N 6
%P 771-781
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9890771
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IT9890771 
%X A new halacaroid family, Pezidae, is erected for the new genus Peza, with two new species Peza ops (type species) and Peza daps. P. ops has been widely collected in south-eastern Australia, while P. daps is known only from a single female taken from the gill chamber of a burrowing crayfish, Engaeus fultoni Smith &amp; Schuster (Crustacea : Decapoda : Parastacidae), in the Otway Ranges, Victoria. During winter and spring, females of both species apparently attach their eggs to their hind legs. The Pezidae is regarded as the sister-group of the remaining Halacaroidea. 
