title: Veigaiidae
text: # 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
  