Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
   Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848 - arthropods
     Subphylum Chelicerata Heymons, 1901
       Class Arachnida Lamarck, 1801
         Superorder Acariformes Zakhvatkin, 1952 - mitelike mites
           Order Sarcoptiformes Reuter, 1909
             Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968 - oribatid mites
               Infraorder Enarthronota Grandjean, 1969
                 Superfamily Protoplophoroidea Ewing, 1917
                   1 Family Cosmochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947
                   2 Family Haplochthoniidae van der Hammen, 1959
                   3 Family Pediculochelidae Lavoipierre, 1946
                   4 Family Protoplophoridae Ewing, 1917
                   5 Family Sphaerochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947