Oppia

Oppia nitens, from here.

Belongs within: Oppioidea.

Oppia is a genus of oppioid oribatid mites found in most parts of the world except Australia (Subías 2004). They are fungal feeders with masses of fungal spores having been found in the gut of O. nitens and O. neerlandica (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum with costulae, lamellar and translamellar lines absent; interlamellar setae present; sensillus elongately fusiform or lanceolate. Notogaster without protruding humeral processes; crista absent. Genital plate with five pairs of setae.

Oppia Koch 1836 [incl. Dameosoma Berlese 1892] S04
    |--*O. nitens Koch 1836 S04
    |    |--O. n. nitens (see below for synonymy) S04
    |    `--O. n. brachytrichinus Dalenius 1958 S04
    |--O. alces (Jacot 1934) SN98
    |--O. capense (Paoli 1908) [=Dameosoma capense] S04
    |--O. cephalota (Hall 1911) (n. d.) [=Damaeus cephalotus] S04
    |--O. coloradensis Woolley 1969 S04
    |--O. concolor Koch 1839 (n. d.) S04
    |--O. denticulata (Canestrini & Canestrini 1882) S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |--O. elegans (Trägårdh 1931) (n. d.) [=Dameosoma elegans] S04
    |--O. elongata Jacot 1938 (n. d.) [incl. O. parviaures Jacot 1939] S04
    |--O. ewingi (Berlese 1916) S04 [=Damoeosoma denticulatum var. ewingi S04]
    |--O. falcata N77
    |--O. flagellifera Wang 1993 S04
    |--O. huangshanensis Wen & Chen 1991 S04
    |--O. hungarica Karpelles 1893 (n. d.) S04
    |--O. incisirostra Woas 1986 S04
    |--O. leleupi Balogh 1958 (n. d.) S04
    |--O. neerlandica NB-P09 [=Dameosoma neerlandicum CH98]
    |--O. neonominata Subías 2004 [=Oppia concolor tridentata Pérez-Íñigo 1976 non O. tridentata Forsslund 1942] S04
    |--O. obsoleta N77
    |--O. orientalis Sanyal & Bhaduri 1989 S04
    |--O. ornata (Oudemans 1900) S62
    |--O. quadrisetosa (Kramer 1898) (n. d.) [=Notaspis quadrisetosa] S04
    |--O. samadi Kardar 1976 S04
    |--O. seminuda Scull, Jeleva & Cruz 1984 S04
    |--O. speciosa Golosova 1981 S04
    |--‘Dameosoma’ splendens S22
    |--O. unicarinata N77
    `--O. vitrea (Tseng 1982) [=Brachioppia vitrea] S04

Oppia denticulata (Canestrini & Canestrini 1882) S04 [=Belba denticulata S04, *Dameosoma denticulatum CH98; incl. O. cyclosoma Mihelčič 1955 S04, O. grandis Mihelčič 1955 S04, O. willmanni Oudemans 1937 S04]

*Oppia nitens nitens Koch 1836 [incl. Belba minuta Banks 1895, Dameosoma myrmecophila Sellnick 1928, Oribata perolata Banks 1909] S04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

Balogh, J., & P. Balogh. 1992. The Oribatid Mites Genera of the World vol. 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum: Budapest.

[CH98] Colloff, M. J., & R. B. Halliday. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A catalogue of Australian genera and species. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[N77] Niedbała, W. 1977. Badania biocenotyczne nad mechowcami (Acari, Oribatei) Masywu Ślęży. Badania Fizjograficzne nad Polską Zachodnią, Seria C—Zoologia 30: 47–73.

[NB-P09] Norton, R. A., & V. M. Behan-Pelletier. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3^rd ed. pp. 430–564. Texas Tech University Press.

[S22] Schweizer, J. 1922. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der terrestrischen Milbenfauna der Schweiz. Verhandl. Naturf. Ges. Basel 33: 23–112, 4 pls.

[S62] Seyd, E. L. 1962. The moss mites of Kinder Scout, Derbyshire (Acari: Oribatei). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44 (300): 585–591.

[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.

[SN98] Swift, S. F., & R. A. Norton. 1998. Preliminary report on oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) diversity in the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 57: 1–44.

Last updated: 22 December 2018.