Neotrichoppia

Dorsal (left) and ventral views of Neotrichoppia pseudoconfinis, from Balogh & Balogh (1992 vol. 2).

Belongs within: Oppiidae.

Neotrichoppia is a Palaearctic genus of oppiid oribatid mites (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum with lamellar costulae present; lamellar setae much nearer to interlamellar setae then to rostral setae. Dorsosejugal suture continuous, convex, penetrating deeply into basal part of prodorsum. Notogaster with crista absent; seta c2 well developed. Genital plates with five pairs of setae; aggenital region with one or fifteen pairs of setae.

<==Neotrichoppia Subías & Iturrondobeitia 1980 S04
    |--*N. (Neotrichoppia) pseudoconfinis Subías & Iturrondobeitia 1980 S04
    |--N. (Ancestroppia Subías & Rodríguez 1986) S04
    |    |--N. (*A.) berninii Subías & Rodríguez 1986 S04
    |    `--N. (A.) ‘confinis’ (Bernini 1973) non Dameosoma confine Paoli 1908 [=Oppia confinis] BB92
    `--N. (Confinoppia Subías & Rodríguez 1986) S04
         |--N. (*C.) confinis (Paoli 1908) [=Dameosoma confine] S04
         |    |--N. c. confinis S04
         |    `--N. c. tenuiseta Subías & Rodríguez 1986 S04
         |--N. (C.) adanata Iturrondobeitia & Saloña 1988 S04
         |--N. (C.) gibber (Mahunka 1982) [=Oppia gibber] S04
         |--N. (C.) hauseri (Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp 2000) [=Lauroppia hauseri] S04
         |--N. (C.) variabilis Iturrondobeitia & Subías 1981 S04
         `--N. (C.) zushi (Aoki 1984) [=Oppiella zushi] S04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BB92] 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.