Henri M. André

Henri M. André (fl. 1979-), Belgian acarologist.

Past curator, Invertebrates non-insects, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium. RMCA profile.

Author abbreviation: André

Introduced to ecology by Ph. Lebrun (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and to acarology by Yves Coineau (MNHN, Paris, France) and Gerald W. Krantz (OSU, Corvallis, U.S.A.)

Most publications on soil ecology and Tydeoidea

(List may be incomplete)

• 73 taxon names authored by Henri M. André

(List may be incomplete)

• 1979 (1978). A generic revision of the family Tydeidae (Acari: Actinedida) I. Introduction, paradigms and general classification. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique 108(3–4): 189–208. Full article (PDF) on BUGZ. Reference page. 

• 1980. A generic revision of the family Tydeidae (Acari: Actinedida). IV. Generic descriptions, keys and conclusions. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belge d’Entomologie 116: 103–130, 139–168. Reference page. 

• 1984. Tydeinae (Acari : Tydeidae) from Belgium. I. The genus Homeotydeus. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belge d’Entomologie 120: 117–122. Reference page. 

• 1985. Redefinition of the genus Triophtydeus Thor, 1932 (Acari: Actinedida). Zoologische Mededelingen 59(16): 189–195. Abstract and full paper. Reference page. 

• 1988. The phanerotaxy of the genus Xenylla (Collembola, Hypogastruridae), with a description of a new species from Ethiopia. Revue de Zoologie africaine 102: 503–527. Reference page. 

• Fain, A., Coineau, Y. & 1993. Description de deux espèces nouvelles d'Astigmates sabulicoles (Acari). Acarologia 34(2): 149–158. Abstract and full paper Reference page. 

• 2004. Revalidation of Oriola and replacement name for Meyerella (Acari: Tydeoidea). International journal of acarology 30(3): 279–280. DOI: 10.1080/01647950408684395 Reference page. 

• 2005. In search of the true Tydeus (Acari: Tydeidae). Journal of Natural History 39: 975–1001. Reference page. 

• André, H.M., Ueckermann, E.A. & Rahmani, H. 2010. Description of two new closely related to Tydeus spathulatus (Acari: Tydeidae) from Zimbabwe and Iran. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 6: 111–116.
• André, H.M., Zacharda, M. & N’Dri, J.K. 2010. From parataxonomy to molecular data: The case of Rhagidiidae (Acari) from Belgian soils. Acarologia 50: 501–512.

• 2011. Dugès’ caudatus is a Tenuipalpidae and not a Tydeidae (Acari). Acarologia 51(1): 69–85. Abstract and full article. Reference page. 
• N’Dri, J.K. & André, H.M. 2011. Soil mite densities from central Ivory Coast. Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences 10: 1283–1299.
• N’Dri, J.K., André, H.M. & Hance, Th. 2011. Soil mite diversity from Ivory Coast. European Journal of Scientific Research, 64: 263–276.

• & Van Impe, G. 2012. The missing stase in spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae): when the adult is not the imago. Acarologia 52: 3–16. Abstract and full article. Reference page. 

• & N'Dri, J.K. 2013 (2012). Bréviaire de taxonomie des acariens. Abc Taxa 13, Bruxelles, Belgique, xiv + 186 pp. ISBN 9789073242203 (hard copy) / ISBN 9789073242210. (PDFs for download.) Reference page. 

• André, H.M. 2015. Obituary. Philippe Lebrun (1938–2015). The last lesson. Acarologia 55: 121–126.

• André, H.M. 2019. The true identity of Pascal’s mite and the diachronic use of ciron. Acarologia 59(2): 261-278; DOI 10.24349/acarologia/20194330

• 2021. The Tydeoidea (Ereynetidae, Iolinidae, Triophtydeidae and Tydeidae) - An online database in the Wikispecies platform. Acarologia 61(4): 1023-1035. DOI: 10.24349/6yc5-1lxw Reference page. 

• 2023. Lorryia (Acariformes, Tydeidae): The evolutionary plasticity of an enigmatic genus. Acarologia 63(3): 844-855. Reference page. 
• Escobar-Garcia, H.A., Andrade, D.J. de, Ueckermann E.A. & 2023. A new species of the genus Brachytydeus Thor sensu André (Acari: Tydeidae) and a key to all known species from Peru. Zootaxa 5319(2): 263–274. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.2.7 . Reference page. 

• & Flechtmann, C.H.W. 2024. Smithmeyerella, a replacement name for Meyerella Amrine et al. (Acariformes, Eriophyidae), a preoccupied name. Systematic & Applied Acarology 29(5): 559. Reference page. 

• 2025. Sixty years after "A review of the genera of the family Tydeidae" (Acariformes: Tydeoidea: Tydeidae). Acarologia 65(1): 149-172. https://doi.org/10.24349/l5vb-767l Reference page.