Metabelba (Metabelba)

Metabelba pulverulenta, copyright R. Penttinen.

Belongs within: Damaeidae.

The type subgenus of the genus Metabelba is a subcosmopolitan group of damaeid oribatid mites, not yet known from the Neotropical region (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Notogaster with spinae adnatae absent. Setal formula of trochanters I–IV 1-1-4-3; setal formula of genua I–IV 4-4-4-4, seta d formula of genua 1-1-1-0; seta d formula of tibiae I–IV 0-1-1-0.

<==Metabelba Grandjean 1936 (Metabelba) S04
    |--*M. (M.) papillipes (Nicolet 1855) (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--M. (M.) aphelesa (Woolley & Higgins 1979) [=Dasybelba aphelesa] S04
    |--M. (M.) benoiti (n. d.) S04
    |--M. (M.) filippovae Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1965 S04
    |--M. (M.) flagelliseta Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1965 S04
    |--M. (M.) glabriseta Mahunka 1982 [incl. M. angolensis Balogh 1958 (n. d.)] S04
    |--M. (M.) heteropoda Balogh 1958 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. (M.) horrida Balogh 1958 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. (M.) machadoi Pérez-Íñigo 1986 S04
    |--M. (M.) monilipeda Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1965 S04
    |--M. (M.) obtusa Hammer 1966 S04
    |--M. (M.) orientalis Balogh & Mahunka 1967 S04
    |--M. (M.) paraitalica Kulijev 1967 S04
    |--M. (M.) parapulverosa Moritz 1966 S04
    |--M. (M.) propexa (Kulczynski 1902) [=Oribata propexa] S04
    |--M. (M.) propinqua (Sellnick 1943) [=Damaeus propinquus] S04
    |--M. (M.) pseudoitalica Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1965 S04
    |--M. (M.) pulverulenta (Koch 1839) [=Nothrus pulverulentus; incl. M. pulverosa Strenzke 1953] S04
    |--M. (M.) rara Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1965 S04
    |--M. (M.) rohdendorfi Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1965 S04
    |--M. (M.) singularis Mihelčič 1964 S04
    `--M. (M.) tanganyikensis Balogh 1958 (n. d.) S04

*Metabelba (Metabelba) papillipes (Nicolet 1855) [=Damaeus papillipes; incl. M. cremersi Hammen 1952, Belba globipes Canestrini & Berlese 1884, B. michaeli Oudemans 1900, B. obscura Mihelčič 1956] 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.