Carabodes (Klapperiches)

Carabodes chandleri, from Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility.

Belongs within: Carabodidae.

The subgenus Klapperiches of the genus Carabodes is a cosmopolitan group of carabodid oribatid mites with an unusually shortened ventral region.

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum and notogaster without high elevation(s) or deep excavation(s); notogaster with ten pairs of well-developed setae. Ventral region shortened, genital and anal plates near each other; genital plates with four pairs of setae; aggenital setae absent.

<==Carabodes (Klapperiches Mahunka 1979) S04
    |--C. (*K.) nigrosetosus (Mahunka 1979) [=*Klapperiches nigrosetosus] S04
    |--C. (K.) agenjoi Pérez-Íñigo 1969 S04
    |--C. (K.) andasibe Mahunka 1993 S04
    |--C. (K.) atrichosus Mahunka 1984 S04
    |--C. (K.) borhidii Balogh & Mahunka 1979 S04
    |--C. (K.) california Reeves & Behan-Pelletier 1998 S04
    |--C. (K.) chandleri Reeves 1992 S04
    |--C. (K.) coronatus Mahunka 1986 S04
    |--C. (K.) depilatus Balogh & Mahunka 1969 S04
    |--C. (K.) dickinsoni Reeves & Behan-Pelletier 1998 S04
    |--C. (K.) dissimilis Bernini 1976 S04
    |--C. (K.) ecuadoriensis Balogh 1988 S04
    |--C. (K.) excellens Balogh & Mahunka 1969 S04
    |--C. (K.) globiger Balogh 1970 S04
    |--C. (K.) granosus Sellnick 1959 S04
    |--C. (K.) higginsi Reeves 1988 S04
    |--C. (K.) jamaicaensis Woolley 1967 S04
    |--C. (K.) kusseri Balogh & Balogh 1983 S04
    |--C. (K.) littoristicus (Reeves 1997) [=Klapperiches littoristicus] S04
    |--C. (K.) luteoauratus Hammer 1972 S04
    |--C. (K.) manganoi Bernini 1976 S04
    |--C. (K.) manifera Hammer 1977 S04
    |--C. (K.) microtrichus Mahunka 1984 S04
    |--C. (K.) minusculus Berlese 1923 [incl. C. castrii Mahunka 1966] S04
    |--C. (K.) ornatissimus Hammer 1966 S04
    |--C. (K.) penicillatus Berlese 1916 S04
    |--C. (K.) penicillus (Mahunka 1998) [=Klapperiches penicillus] S04
    |--C. (K.) pocsi Mahunka 1983 S04
    |--C. (K.) poggii Bernini 1976 S04
    |--C. (K.) problematicus Mahunka 1985 S04
    |--C. (K.) pulcher Bernini 1976 S04
    |    |--C. p. pulcher S04
    |    `--C. p. occidentalis Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1996 S04
    |--C. (K.) purpurarius Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1996 S04
    |--C. (K.) radiatus Berlese 1916 [incl. C. dendroetus Reeves 1987] S04
    |--C. (K.) samoensis Balogh & Balogh 1986 S04
    |--C. (K.) schatzi Bernini 1976 S04
    |--C. (K.) similis Ruiz, Subías & Kahwash 1989 [incl. C. translamellatus Pérez-Íñigo 1990] S04
    |--C. (K.) strinovichi Balogh & Mahunka 1978 S04
    |--C. (K.) tenerifensis Pérez-Íñigo 1976 S04
    |--C. (K.) variabilis Hammer 1966 S04
    `--C. (K.) willmanni Bernini 1975 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.

[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.