Tags: Arachnid.
The Proctophyllodidae are a family of the Acarina (mite) order Astigmata. They contain many feather mites. The Alloptidae and Trouessartiidae were in earlier times included here as subfamilies.Proctophyllodidae females are extremely similar among species and sometimes even hard to assign to a genus while males vary much more. Two subfamilies are generally recognized the Proctophyllodinae and the Pterodectinae.