Medioppia

Medioppia heterotricha, from here.

Belongs within: Oppiidae.

Medioppia is a genus of oppiid oribatid mites recorded from most parts of the world except the Oriental region and Antarctica (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum with lamellar costulae absent; sensillus pectinate or fusiform and ciliate. Anterior margin of notogaster with posteriorly directed cristae; notogaster with ten pairs of setae, setae c2 well developed. Genital plates usually with six pairs of setae. Setae ad1 postanal; fissure iad paraanal.

<==Medioppia Subías & Mínguez 1985 [incl. Ctenoppiella Gordeeva & Karppinen 1988, Kunoppia Mahunka 1987] S04
    |--*M. media (Mihelčič 1956) [=Oppia media; incl. M. templadoi Pérez-Íñigo 1988] S04
    |--M. beskidyensis Niemi & Skubala 1993 S04
    |--M. centrodentata Gordeeva & Niemi 1990 S04
    |--M. gomozovae (Gordeeva & Karppinen 1988) S04 [=*Ctenoppiella gomozovae BB92]
    |--M. heterotricha Ivan & Vasiliu 1997 S04
    |--M. hygrophila (Mahunka 1987) [=Kunoppia hygrophila] S04
    |--M. ‘lamellata’ (Golosova & Karppinen 1985) [=Oppia lamellata non Oppia deficiens lamellata Wallwork 1961] S04
    |--M. loksai (Schalk 1966) [=Oppia loksai] S04
    |--M. melisi (Valle 1949) [=Oppia melisi] S04
    |--M. minidentata Subías & Rodríguez 1988 S04
    |--M. minimedia Arillo & Subías 1990 S04
    |--M. oblongata (Gordeeva & Melamud 1991) [=Ctenoppiella oblongata] S04
    |--M. obsoleta (Paoli 1908) [=Dameosoma fallax obsoletum; incl. D. vitrinum Hull 1914] S04
    |--M. ordunensis (Iturrondobeitia & Saloña 1988) (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--M. parapectinata (Rjabinin 1987) [=Oppia parapectinata] S04
    |--M. parva (Lombardini 1952) (n. d.) [=Oppia parva] S04
    |--M. pinsapi Arillo & Subías 1996 S04
    |--M. plumata (Gordeeva & Karppinen 1988) [=Ctenoppiella plumata] S04
    |--M. producta Iturrondobeitia & Arillo 1997 S04
    |--M. samaina Mahunka 2001 S04
    |--M. subpectinata (Oudemans 1900) (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--M. tridentata Subías & Minguez 1985 S04
    |--M. trilobata Khanbekjan & Gordeeva 1991 S04
    |--M. truncata Iturrondobeitia & Saloña 1988 S04
    |--M. tuberculata (Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1964) [=Oppia tuberculata] S04
    `--M. vera (Mihelčič 1956) [=Oppia vera] S04

Medioppia ordunensis (Iturrondobeitia & Saloña 1988) [=Lauroppia ordunensis; incl. Oppiella acutirostris Pérez-Íñigo 1990] S04

Medioppia subpectinata (Oudemans 1900) [=Eremaeus subpectinatus; incl. Dameosoma subpectinatum aberratum Thamdrup 1932, Oppia bulanovae Kulijev 1962, O. globosa Mihelčič 1956, O. paoliana Cooreman 1941, O. zachvatkini Kulijev 1962] 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.