Austrotritia

Austrotritia lebronneci, copyright R. Penttinen.

Belongs within: Euphthiracaroidea.

Austrotritia is a genus of euphthiracaroid box mites found primarily in tropical Asia and Oceania (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Aspis with one pair of exobothridial setae present. Palpi four- or five-segmented. Posterior median apodeme absent. Genu IV with solenidion and seta. Genital-aggenital suture absent, the two plates completely fused; genital setae in paraxial position, in longitudinal row; ano-genital cleft present; interlocking triangle absent.

<==Austrotritia Sellnick 1959 [incl. Macarotritia Pérez-Íñigo 1986] S04
    |--*A. quadricarinata Sellnick 1959 S04
    |--A. bifurca Niedbala 2000 S04
    |--A. carinata Niedbala 2000 S04
    |--A. dentata Aoki 1980 S04
    |--A. gibba Bayoumi & Mahunka 1979 S04
    |--A. glabrata Niedbala 2000 S04
    |--A. herenessica (Pérez-Íñigo 1986) S04 [=Indotritia (*Macarotritia) herenessica BB92]
    |--A. kinabaluensis Ramsay & Sheals 1969 S04
    |--A. lanceolata Aoki 1988 S04
    |--A. lebronneci (Jacot 1934) [=Indotritia lebronneci] S04
    |    |--A. l. lebronneci S04
    |    |--A. l. crassiori Jacot 1934 S04
    |    |--A. l. flagelloides Jacot 1934 S04
    |    `--A. l. tahitiana (Jacot 1934) [=Indotritia lebronneci tahitiana] S04
    |--A. ramsayi Mahunka 1991 S04
    |--A. robusta Niedbala & Corpuz-Raros 1998 S04
    |--A. saraburiensis Aoki 1965 (see below for synonymy) S04
    `--A. unicarinata Aoki 1980 S04

Austrotritia saraburiensis Aoki 1965 [=A. lebronneci saraburiensis; incl. A. ishigakiensis Aoki 1980, A. optabilis Niedbala 1991, A. shealsi Mahunka 1987] 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.