Veigaiidae
# Veigaiidae

Veigaiidae is a family of mites belonging to the superorder Parasitiformes. However they are not parasitic but free-living and predatory and are found in soil and decaying organic matter. Some species are specialists of rocky shorelines. Members of this family can be distinguished by a hyaline appendage on the tarsus of the pedipalp.

## Genera

* Cyrthydrolaelaps Berlese, 1904
* Gamasolaelaps Berlese, 1903
* Gorirossia Farrier, 1957
* Veigaia Oudemans, 1905
