caa a22 4500 469060948 CHVBK 20180323132857.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01205353 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01205353 Are the morphometrics of chelicerae correlated with diet in mesostigmatid mites (Acari)? [Elektronische Daten] [Romuald Buryn, Roland Brandl] Gamasid mites are prominent predators of soil communities. Some species are said to be specialized predators feeding on nematodes or arthropods. A conspicuous difference between species is the structure of the chelicerae. We test the hypothesis that measurable attributes of the chelicerae are related to diet. We measured ten morphometric parameters of the chelicerae from 52 species within 29 genera. For 28 species and 26 genera we were able to extract food preferences from the literature and own observations. We found some weak indications that arthropod predators have proportionally larger chelicerae compared to similar-sized species feeding on nematodes or other worm-like diets. The latter are characterized by a larger number of teeth along the digitus fixus and digitus mobilis. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1992 Buryn Romuald Lehrstuhl Tierökologie I, University Bayreuth, Postfach 10 12 51, D-8580, Bayreuth, Germany aut Brandl Roland Lehrstuhl Tierökologie I, University Bayreuth, Postfach 10 12 51, D-8580, Bayreuth, Germany aut Experimental & Applied Acarology Kluwer Academic Publishers 14/1(1992-04-01), 67-82 0168-8162 14:1<67 1992 14 10493 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205353 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205353 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Buryn Romuald Lehrstuhl Tierökologie I, University Bayreuth, Postfach 10 12 51, D-8580, Bayreuth, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brandl Roland Lehrstuhl Tierökologie I, University Bayreuth, Postfach 10 12 51, D-8580, Bayreuth, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental & Applied Acarology Kluwer Academic Publishers 14/1(1992-04-01), 67-82 0168-8162 14:1<67 1992 14 10493 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer