I recently collected the most beautiful Anystis I've ever seen from under some tree bark and was hoping to check if it had been previously described. Unfortunately, it seems that not much work has been done on the genus? Does anyone know who I could contact about attempting an ID?
Maybe create an account on iNaturalist to upload to anyone in that community who could id it.
Frederic Beaulieu CNC (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frederic-Beaulieu) is undertaking a project on these mite. Getting them down to species is problematic because the taxonomy is a mess and there may or may not be a ton of cryptic species based on COI divergences. So I recommend contacting Fred and seeing if he is interested in receiving specimens. He almost certainly will be.
Dr. Cal Welbourn at the Smithsonian, with Dr. Beaulieu (Agriculture Canada) are looking to the situation of the genus in North America. It is complicated. Morphological and molecular work is need it.