Neogymnobates

Neogymnobates luteus, copyright Monica Young.


Belongs within: Ceratozetoidea.

Neogymnobates is a genus of ceratozetid oribatid mites found in North America and eastern Asia (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum with translamella long, cuspides far from each other. Notogaster with thirteen pairs of setae; four or five pairs of areae porosae, areae Aa about as long as wide, only slightly larger than A1, two pairs of A1 may be present; pteromorphae immovable. Six pairs of genital setae; one pair of aggenital setae; two pairs of anal setae; three pairs of adanal setae. Legs tridactyle.

<==Neogymnobates Ewing 1917 S04
    |--N. (Neogymnobates) [incl. Boreozetes Hammer 1955] S04
    |    |--*N. (N.) multipilosus (Ewing 1907) [=Oribata multipilosa] S04
    |    |--N. (N.) capitatus Wang & Solhoy 2001 S04
    |    |--N. (N.) donghaksaensis (Choi 1986) [=Boreozetes donghaksaensis] S04
    |    |--N. (N.) luteus (Hammer 1955) [=Boreozetes luteus] S04
    |    |    |--N. l. luteus S04
    |    |    `--N. l. asiaticus Aoki 1974 S04
    |    `--N. (N.) marilynae Behan-Pelletier 2000 S04
    `--N. (Koreozetes Aoki 1974) S04
         `--N. (*K.) parvisetiger (Aoki 1974) [=*Koreozetes parvisetiger] 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.

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