Hydrozetes

Hydrozetes lacustris, copyright R. Penttinen.

Belongs within: Circumdehiscentiae.

Hydrozetes is a cosmopolitan genus of aquatic oribatid mites, generally found in association with plants (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009).

Characters (from Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009): Length 400-700 µm. Bothridial seta reduced or absent. Notogaster without pteromorphs; with 13 or 15-17 pairs of setae (secondary h setae). Seta d inserted on proximal fifth of femora I-III, proximal to other femoral setae: lenticulus present, circular, strongly convex.

<==Hydrozetes Berlese 1902 [Hydrozetidae] S04
    |--H. (Hydrozetes) S04
    |    |--*H. (H.) lacustris (Michael 1882) S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |    |--H. (H.) amudariensis Koshchanova & Krivolutsky 1984 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) californiensis Habeeb 1974 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) capensis Engelbrecht 1974 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) confervae (Schrank 1781) S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |    |--H. (H.) dimorphus Hammer 1962 S04
    |    |    |--H. d. dimorphus S04
    |    |    `--H. d. virginalis Fernández & Travé 1984 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) edentulus Willmann 1931 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) escobari Fernández & Travé 1984 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) gueyeae Mahunka 1990 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) indicator Habeeb 1974 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) laccosis Woolley 1969 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) lemnae (Coggi 1897) [=Notaspis lemnae; incl. H. mollicoma Hammer 1958] S04
    |    |--H. (H.) megacephalum (Berlese 1901) (n. d.) [=Dameosoma megacephalum] S04
    |    |--H. (H.) niloticus (Trägardh 1905) [=Notaspis niloticus] S04
    |    |--H. (H.) octosetosus Willmann 1931 [=H. lacustris octosetosus] S04
    |    |--H. (H.) parisiensis Grandjean 1948 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) paulista Pérez-Íñigo & Baggio 1989 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) petrunkevitchi Newel 1945 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) platensis Berlese 1902 (n. d.) S04
    |    |--H. (H.) tobaicus Willmann 1931 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) tridactylus Abdel-Hamid 1964 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) uberabensis Pérez-Íñigo & Baggio 1996 S04
    |    |--H. (H.) vicarius Balogh 1958 (n. d.) S04
    |    `--H. (H.) videor Habeeb 1974 S04
    |--H. (Argentinobates Fernández 1984) S04
    |    `--H. (*A.) ringueleti Fernández 1984 S04
    `--H. (Heloribates Grandjean 1966) S04
         |--H. (*H.) thienemanni Strenzke 1943 S04
         |--H. (H.) incisus Grandjean 1948 NB-P09, S04
         `--H. (H.) tamarae Toslstikov 1996 S04

Hydrozetes (Hydrozetes) confervae (Schrank 1781) S04 [=Acarus confervae S04, Eremaeus confervae G49, Oppia confervae G49; incl. H. terrestris Berlese 1910 S04]

*Hydrozetes (Hydrozetes) lacustris (Michael 1882) S04 [=Notaspis lacustris S04; incl. N. speciosus Chinaglia 1917 S04, Xenillus speciosus G49]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[G49] Grandjean, F. 1949. Sur le genre Hydrozetes Berl. (Acariens). Bulletin du Muséum, 2e série, 21 (2): 224–231.

[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.

[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.