Murcia

Murcia trimaculata, copyright R. Penttinen.

Belongs within: Ceratozetoidea.

Murcia is a genus of oribatid mites found in Eurasia and the Americas (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992, as Trichoribates): Prodorsum with tapered lamellae, translamella present; lamellae reaching anteriad to level of insertion of rostral setae. Notogaster with lenticulus; ten pairs of setae; four pairs of areae porosae; pteromorphae immovable. Six pairs of genital setae; one pair of aggenital setae; two pairs of anal setae; three pairs of adanal setae. Legs tridactyle.

<==Murcia Koch 1835 [=Trichoribates Berlese 1910; incl. Claviceps Canestrini & Fanzago 1877] S04
    |--*M. trimaculata Koch 1835 S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |--M. acaroides Koch 1835 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. alpina (Aoki 1982) [=Trichoribates alpinus] S04
    |--M. angustata (Mihelčič 1957) [=Trichoribates angustatus; incl. Sphaerozetes prudens Berlese 1913 (n. d.)] S04
    |--M. austroamericana (Berlese 1910) [=Sphaerozetes (Trichoribates) setosus austroamericanus] S04
    |--M. biarea (Gjelstrup & Solhoy 1994) [=Trichoribates biareus] S04
    |--M. boletorum (Ewing 1909) [=Oribata boletorum] S04
    |--M. brevicuspis (Mihelčič 1958) (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--M. caucasica (Shaldybina 1971) [=Trichoribates caucasicus] S04
    |--M. copperminensis Hammer 1952 S04
    |--M. deliensis Oudemans 1922 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. ephippiata Koch 1841 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. formosa (Banks 1909) [=Oribatella formosa] S04
    |--M. fumigata Koch 1841 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. furcata (Schweizer 1956) [=Trichoribates furcatus] S04
    |--M. heteroporosa (Wen & Bu 1988) [=Trichoribates heteroporosus] S04
    |--M. hirtus (Canestrini & Fanzago 1877) (n. d.) [=Claviceps hirtus] S04
    |--‘Trichoribates’ incisellus (Kramer 1897) SM91
    |--M. latincisa (Ewing 1909) [=Oribata latincisa] S04
    |    |--M. l. latincisa S04
    |    `--M. l. gigantea (Hall 1911) [=Oribata latincisa gigantea] S04
    |--M. latirostris (Bayartogtok & Aoki 1998) [=Trichoribates latirostris] S04
    |--M. longipilis Willmann 1951 S04
    |--M. lucens S62
    |--M. montana (Hammer 1961) [=Jugatala montana]
    |--M. monticola (Trägardh 1902) [=Notaspis monticola; incl. Trichoribates montanus Irk 1939] S04
    |--M. myrica (Gjelstrup & Solhoy 1994) [=Trichoribates myrica] S04
    |--M. neglecta (Kulijev 1979) [=Trichoribates neglectus] S04
    |--M. nova Sellnick 1928 S04
    |    |--M. n. nova S04
    |    `--M. n. dentata (Mihelčič 1957) [=Trichoribates dentatus] S04
    |--M. obesa (Banks 1895) [=Oribatella obesa; incl. Jugatala lamellata Ewing 1918] S04
    |--M. oblongarea (Gjelstrup & Solhoy 1994) [=Trichoribates oblongarea] S04
    |--M. ocotlicus (Palacios-Vargas & Norton 1984) [=Trichoribates ocotlicus] S04
    |--M. ogilviensis (Behan-Pelletier 1986) [=Trichoribates ogilviensis] S04
    |--M. perfecta (Banks 1896) [=Oribatella perfecta] S04
    |--M. perlongum (Schweizer 1956) [=Trichoribates perlongum] S04
    |--M. persimilis (Banks 1906) [=Galumna persimilis] S04
    |--M. polaris (Hammer 1953) [=Trichoribates polaris] S04
    |--M. punctata (Shaldybina 1971) [=Trichoribates punctatus] S04
    |--M. rausensis (Aoki 1962) [=Trichoribates rausensis] S04
    |--M. rotunda (Willmann 1953) [=Jugatala rotunda] S04
    |--M. rotundicuspidata (Bayartogtokh & Aoki 1998) [=Trichoribates rotundicuspidatus] S04
    |--M. ruber (Canestrini & Fanzago 1877) (n. d.) (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--M. serrata (Pérez-Íñigo & Pérez-Íñigo 1993) [=Trichoribates serratus] S04
    |--M. ‘setiger’ (Trägardh 1910) [=Oribata piriformis setiger non O. setiger Kulczynski 1902] S04
    |--M. spatulasetosa (Reeves 1967) [=Trichoribates spatulasetosa] S04
    |--M. spinogenuala (Ewing 1909) [=Oribata spinogenuala] S04
    |--M. striata (Hammer 1952) [=Trichoribates striatus] S04
    |--M. tectopedacuta Thor 1937 (n. d.) S04
    |--M. tepetlensis (Palacios-Vargas & Norton 1984) [=Trichoribates tepetlensis] S04
    |--M. tianshanensis (Wen & Bu 1988) [=Trichoribates tianshanensis] S04
    `--M. tjanshanica (Shaldybina 1971) [=Trichoribates tjanshanicus] S04

Murcia brevicuspis (Mihelčič 1958) [=Trichoribates brevicuspis; incl. T. longipilis Mihelčič 1956 non Murcia longipilis Willmann 1951, T. pilosus Mihelčič 1966] S04

Murcia ruber (Canestrini & Fanzago 1877) (n. d.) non M. rubra Koch 1841 (not preoc. if in dif. gen.) [=Claviceps ruber, Odontocepheus ruber] S04

*Murcia trimaculata Koch 1835 S04 [=*Trichoribates trimaculatus BB92; incl. Sphaerozetes (Trichoribates) berlesei Jacot 1929 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.

[SM91] Serralheiro, F., & M. Madeira. 1991. Acari colonization of Quercus suber and Eucalyptus globulus litter. In: Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 353–358. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[S62] Seyd, E. L. 1962. The moss mites of Kinder Scout, Derbyshire (Acari: Oribatei). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44 (300): 585–591.

[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.