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{{Short description|Suborder of mites}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| oldest_fossil = Cenomanian
| image = Mesostigmata spM1.jpg
| image_caption = ''Berzercon ferdinandi'', New Zealand
| taxon = Sejida
| authority = Kramer, 1885
| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies
| subdivision = * Heterozerconoidea <small>Berlese, 1892</small>
* Sejoidea <small>Berlese, 1885</small>
}}
'''Sejida''' is a suborder of mites in the order [[Mesostigmata]]. There are about 5 families and 13 described species in Sejida.<ref name=itis/><ref name=Beaulieu2011/> The oldest known record of the group is an indeterminate deutonymph belonging to [[Sejidae]] from the mid Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) aged [[Burmese amber]] of Myanmar.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Joharchi|first=Omid|last2=Vorontsov|first2=Dmitry D.|last3=Walter|first3=David Evans|date=2021-09-14|title=Oldest determined record of a mesostigmatic mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Sejidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/goj5-bzms|journal=Acarologia|volume=61|issue=3|pages=641–649|doi=10.24349/goj5-bzms|issn=0044-586X|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Families==
These five families belong to the suborder Sejida:
* [[Discozerconidae]] <small>Berlese, 1910</small>
* [[Heterozerconidae]] <small>Berlese, 1892</small>
* [[Ichthyostomatogasteridae]] <small>Sellnick, 1953</small>
* [[Sejidae]] <small>Berlese, 1885</small>
* [[Uropodellidae]] <small>Camin, 1955</small>
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=itis>
{{Cite web| title=Sejida Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1117846
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2021-10-31
}}</ref>
<ref name=Beaulieu2011>
{{Cite journal
| title = Superorder Parasitiformes: In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
| date = 2011
| last1 = Beaulieu | first1 = Frédéric
| editor-last1 = Zhang | editor-first1 = Zhi-Qiang
| journal = Zootaxa
| volume = 3148
| isbn = 978-1-86977-849-1
| issn = 1175-5326
| url = https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/3148.html
}}</ref>
}}
==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
* {{Cite book
| title = A Manual of Acarology
| date = 2009
| editor-last1 = Krantz | editor-first1 = G. W.
| editor-last2 = Walter | editor-first2 = D. E.
| publisher = Texas Tech University Press
| isbn = 9780896726208
}}
{{refend}}
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[[Category:Acari]]
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