“…The most recent taxonomic work on the family was by Mašán (2017), who comprehensively revised the generic concepts and morphological attributes of this family. The family, which includes about 138 described species sorted into 12 genera (Mašán, 2017), comprises free-living mites that dwell in the soil, litter, organic matter, stored food, or dust, but most species are fungivorous (Flechtmann, 1985;Moustafa and El-Hady, 2006), which, based on the few species studied (Moustafa and El-Hady, 2006), can be biological control agents for management of various soilborne plant pathogenic fungi (e. g., Rhizoctonia solani Kühn). This fact points to ameroseiids may playing an important role in the balance of the soil ecosystem.…”