Trombidoidea

Current research

• Trombidoidea of New Zealand, funded  by the Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology, New Zealand
• Revision of Trombidiidae in the Oudemans collection.
• Trombidioid mites associated with aphids.
• Trombidioidea of China.

Selected publications from 1995

• Zhang, Z.-Q.  & Fan, Q.-H. (2005) A new genus of Neothrombiidae (Acari: Trombidioidea) from New Zealand. Systematic & Applied Acarology 10: 155-162.
• Zhang, Z.-Q. 2001. Description of Podothrombium gossypium sp. nov. from cotton in Jiangxi, China (Acari: Trombidiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 26: 174-179.
• Goldarazena, A., Z.-Q. Zhang & R. Jordana. 2000. A new species and new record of ectoparasitic mites from thrips in Turkey (Acari: Trombidiidae and Erythraeidae). Systematic Parasitology 45: 75-80.  Full text in pdf.
• Zhang, Z.-Q. 1999. Biology and ecology of trombidiid mites (Acari: Trombidioidea). In:  Bruin, J., L.P.S. van der Geest, L.P.S. & M.W.  Sabelis (eds) Ecology and Evolution of the Acari. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.  pp. 277-289.
• Goldarazena, A., Z.-Q. Zhang. 1999.  Seasonal abundance of Allothrombium monochaetum Goldarazena & Zhang and Allothrombium pulvinum Ewing in Navarra-Nafarroa (northern Spain), with notes on larval host preference and rate of parasitism. Experimental & Applied Acarology 23: 987-993
• Zhang, Z.-Q. & A. Saboori. 1997. Taxonomic notes on larvae of Willmannella (Acari: Microtrombidiidae) and description of a new species from Iran. Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publications 1: 5-18.
• Zhang, Z.-Q. & L.-R. Liang. 1997. An Illustrated Guide to Mites of Agricultural Importance. 14. Trombidiidae. Tongji University Press, Shanghai. pp. 163-170.
• Zhang, Z.-Q. 1996. Parasitism of aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) by larvae of Allothrombium pulvinum (Acari: Trombidiidae): Host species selection, host size selection, and superparasitism. Systematic & Applied Acarology 1: 55-63.
• Zhang, Z.-Q. & H. Norbakhsh.1995. A new genus and three new species of mites (Acari: Trombidiidae) described from larvae ectoparasitic on aphids from Iran. European Journal of Entomology92: 705-718.
• Zhang, Z.-Q.& A. Jensen. 1995. The adult and larva of a new species of Podothrombium (Acari: Trombidiidae) associated with aphids in Oregon. International Journal of Acarology 21: 3-9.
• Zhang, Z.-Q. 1995. A cladistic analysis of Trombidiidae (Acari: Parasitengona): Congruence of larval and adult character sets. Canadian Journal of Zoology 73: 96-107.

See publications on related taxa: Erythraeoidea