Multioppia

Dorsal view of Multioppia (Multioppia) rangifera, from here.

Belongs within: Oppiidae.

Multioppia is a cosmopolitan genus of oppioid oribatid mites. Its three subgenera are distinguished by the morphology of the sensillus: lanceolate and ciliate in Multilanceoppia, fusiform and pectinate with bifurcate side-branches in Furculoppia, or fusiform and simply ciliate or pectinate in Multioppia sensu stricto (Balogh & Balogh 1992 vol. 1).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992 vol. 1): Sensillus fusiform or lanceolate, ciliate or pectinate. Usually with three pairs of sigillae between the interlamellar setae. Notogaster with twelve pairs of setae. Genital plates with five pairs of setae. Fissure iad paraanal.

<==Multioppia Hammer 1961 S04
    |--M. (Multioppia) S04
    |    |--*M. (M.) radiata Hammer 1961 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) australis Hammer 1962 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) bacilliseta Ohkubo 1996 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) canariensis Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1996 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) engelmanni (Calugar & Vasiliu 1983) [=Oppia engelmanni] S04
    |    |--M. (M.) formosana Tseng 1982 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) furugelma Rjabinin 1987 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) gapsaensis Choi 1986 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) ghiljarovi (Kulijev 1962) [=Oppia ghiljarovi] S04
    |    |--M. (M.) gilmartinoi Subías & Arillo 1996 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) glabra (Mihelčič 1955) [=Oppia glabra] S04
    |    |--M. (M.) gracilis Hammer 1972 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) indica Haq 1978 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) insolita Ivan & Vasiliu 1999 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) insulana Pérez-Íñigo 1982 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) integra Pérez-Íñigo 1990 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) jandiae Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1996 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) longisetosa Mahunka 1986 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) moritzi Mahunka & Topercer 1983 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) neglecta Pérez-Íñigo 1969 [incl. M. excisa Moritz 1971] S04
    |    |--M. (M.) pakistanensis Hammer 1977 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) pauciramosa Balogh & Balogh 1986 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) perfecta Mahunka & Topercer 1983 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) pulchra Littlewood & Wallwork 1972 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) rangifera Ivan & Vasiliu 1999 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) shinanoensis Fujita 1989 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) similis Mahunka 1982 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) simplitricha Sanyal & Bhaduri 1989 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) spinifera Mahunka 1982 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) stellifera Hammer 1961 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) tamdao Mahunka 1988 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) tenue Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp 1999 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) translamellaris Balogh & Balogh 1986 S04
    |    |--M. (M.) trembleyi Mahunka 1977 [incl. M. calcarata Mahunka 1992] S04
    |    |--M. (M.) wilsoni Aoki 1964 S04
    |    |    |--M. w. wilsoni [incl. Oppia carolinae barbatis Jacot 1938 (n. d.), O. carolinae Jacot 1938 (n. d.)] S04
    |    |    |--M. w. hungarica Mahunka 1983 [=M. laniseta hungarica] S04
    |    |    `--M. w. laniseta Moritz 1966 (see below for synonymy) S04
    |    `--M. (M.) xinjiangensis Wang, Zheng et al. 1990 S04
    |--M. (Furculoppia Balogh 1983) S04
    |    `--M. (*F.) furcata (Kunst 1958) S04 (see below for synonymy)
    `--M. (Multilanceoppia Subías 1989) S04
         |--M. (*M.) carpatica Schalk 1966 [=M. ramulifera carpatica] S04
         |--M. (M.) brevipectinata Suzuki 1976 S04
         |    |--M. b. brevipectinata S04
         |    `--M. b. lenis Fujita & Fujikawa 1986 S04
         |--M. (M.) insularis Mahunka 1985 S04
         `--M. (M.) pankovi Rjabinin 1987 S04

Multioppia (*Furculoppia) furcata (Kunst 1958) S04 [=Oppia furcata S04; incl. O. bulgarica Mahunka 1987 S04, O. ramulifera Kunst 1959 S04, Multioppia (Furculoppia) ramulifera BB92]

Multioppia (Multioppia) wilsoni laniseta Moritz 1966 [incl. Oppia caporiacci Valle 1955 (n. d.), O. insolita Mihelčič 1956 (n. d.), Dameosoma clavipectinatum lamellatum Thamdrup 1932 (n. d.) non D. minus lamellata Halbert 1923, O. sexmaculata Dalenius 1950 (n. d.)] S04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BB92] Balogh, J., & P. Balogh. 1992. The Oribatid Mites Genera of the World vol. 2. Plates. Hungarian Natural History Museum: Budapest.

[S04] Subías, L. S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758–2002). Graellsia 60 (número extraordinario): 3–305.