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ORDER PALPIGRADI (micro whipscorpions) 
Family Prokoeneniidae 
Prokoenenia sp. (troglobite?) 
Records: Amador Co.: Chrome Cave. Calaveras Co.: Grapevine Gulch Cave. 
Comment: The Chrome Cave species was the first micro-whipscorpion (palpigrade) reported from a California cave. The 
second record is new. 
Bibliography: Briggs (1986); Briggs and Ubick (1981); Conde (1996, 1998); Ehr (1981a). 
SUBCLASS ACARI (mites and ticks) 
Undetermined 
Records: Amador Co.: Rippled Cave; Skeleton Cave. Calaveras Co.: Beta Cave; Bobcat Cave; Carlito’s Cave; Carlow’s 
Bat Cavern; Cave of Skulls; Clutch Cave; Crystal Stanislaus Cave; Eagle View Cave No. 1; Porcupine Cave; Stripe Cave; 
Striped Dome Cave. El Dorado Co.: Crystal Cosumnes Cave. Fresno Co.: Beauty Cave; Boyden Cave; Church Cave; 
Windy Cliff Cave. Inyo Co.: unnamed lava tubes near Crater Mountain; Titus Canyon Cave. Mariposa Co.: Elf Village 
Cave; Indian Cave; Indian Rock Shelter; Spider Cave. Napa Co.: Clay Cave. Plumas Co.: Juniper Cave. San Benito Co.: 
Bear Gulch Cave. San Bernardino Co.: Mitchell Caverns; Papoose Cave. Santa Cruz Co.: Bat Cave; Steams Cave. Shas¬ 
ta Co.: Alien Space Cave; Bat Mummy Cave; Christmas Tree Cave; Flashlight Cave; North Christmas Tree Cave; Rusty 
Cave; Wilcox Cave. Siskiyou Co.: Angleworm/Lost Pinnacle Cave; Arch Cave No. 2; Catacombs Cave; Fem Cave; Mush- 
pot Cave; Planetary Dairy Cave; Spider Cave; Tick City Cave; Valentine Cave. Tulare Co.: Bear Den Cave; Beulah Cave; 
Clough Cave; Crystal Sequoia Cave; Dehydrated Cave; Eighteenth Hole; Hidden Cave; Kaweah Cave; Kaweah Mon- 
keyflower Cave; Lange Cave; Lilbum Cave; Lost Soldier’s Cave; New Cave; Overhang Cave; Panorama/Sink Cave Sys¬ 
tem; Paradise Cave; Pet Cemetery Cave; Pine Grosbeak Cave; Walk Softly Cave; Wiessraum Cave; White Chief Cave. 
Tuolumne Co.: mine 3 km N Columbia; Crystal Palace; McLean’s Cave; Sauna Pit; Transplant Mine. 
Bibhography: Briggs (1993); Elliott (1978); Krejca (2006); Suggett (1982); Zara Environmental (2009). 
Undetermined Acari (troglobite) 
Records: Tulare Co.: Crystal Sequoia Cave; Lilbum Cave. 
Acariformes undetermined 
Records: Siskiyou Co.: Angleworm/Lost Pinnacle Cave; Arch Cave No. 1; Catacombs Cave; Fem Cave; Mushpot Cave; 
Valentine Cave. 
Comment: These specimens were hypopi taken from flies. 
Bibhography: Taylor and Krejca (2006). 
Acariformes undetermined 
Records: Siskiyou Co.: Arch Cave; Fem Cave. 
Comment: These were hypopi taken from nonfly hosts. 
Bibhography: Taylor and Krejca (2006). 
ORDER ORIBATIDA (nonparasitic, moss or beetle mites) 
Undetermined 
Records: Mariposa Co.: Indian Cave; Spider Cave. Siskiyou Co.: caves in Lava Beds National Monument; Arch Cave 
No. 2; Caldwell Ice Caves; Catacombs Cave; Coda Cave; Fem Cave; Mushpot Cave; Planetary Dairy Cave; Rollercoaster 
Cave; Spider Cave; Upper Heppe Cave. Tuolumne Co.: McLean’s Cave. 
Comment: Some of these non-parasitic mites were taken from the nests of Neotoma cinerea along with a large variety of 
fleas and other mites. 
Bibhography: Briggs (1975); Krejca (2007); Nelson and Smith (1976); Taylor and Krejca (2006); Zara Environmental 
(2009). 
Family Acaridae 
Undetermined 
Record: Siskiyou Co.: caves in Lava Beds National Monument. 
Comment: These mites were taken from the nests of Neotoma cinerea', they may be free-living but phoretic on rodents. 
Bibhography: Nelson and Smith (1976). 
