Isobactrus

Dorsal view of Isobactrus uniscutatus, from Bartsch & Smit (2006).

Belongs within: Halacaridae.

Isobactrus is a cosmopolitan genus of marine halacarid mites with the ventral armature reduced and not forming a solid shield, and a club-like seta in front of the lateral disti-dorsal seta on tarsi I and II (Newell 1947).

Characters (from Newell 1947): Genital opening of female ventral in position, not guarded by opercula and surrounded by only three pairs of setae. Adults more heavily armoured than nymphs; all dorsal and ventral plates separate. Ventral plates greatly reduced, not forming a solid shield. Femur I greatly swollen, less than 1.5 times as long as high. Tarsi I and II each with a single club-like seta in front of lateral disti-dorsal seta. Two claws on all tarsi.

<==Isobactrus Newell 1947 AB07
    |--I. microdens AB07
    `--+--I. macquariensis AB07
       `--+--I. magnus (Lohmann 1907) AB07, N47 [=Rhombognathus magnus N47]
          `--+--I. calderensis AB07
             `--+--+--I. obesus AB07
                |  `--+--I. luxtoni AB07
                |     `--+--I. asper AB07
                |        `--+--I. ponapensis AB07
                |           `--+--I. australiensis AB07
                |              `--I. pacificus AB07
                `--+--I. peregrinus AB07
                   `--+--+--I. gryposetus AB07
                      |  |--+--I. hamatus AB07
                      |  |  `--I. levis (Viets 1927) AB07, N47 [=Rhombognathus levis N47]
                      |  `--+--I. hartmanni AB07
                      |     `--+--I. dentatus AB07
                      |        |--I. latistriatus AB07
                      |        `--I. tuberculatus AB07
                      `--+--I. ponticus AB07
                         `--+--I. rugosus AB07
                            `--+--I. uniscutatus AB07
                               `--+--I. cryptorhynchus (Trouessart 1901) AB07, N47 [=Rhombognathus cryptorhynchus N47]
                                  `--+--I. ungulatus AB07
                                     `--+--*I. setosus (Lohmann 1889) N47, AB07, N47 (see below for synonymy)
                                        |--I. hutchinsoni Newell 1947 AB07, N47
                                        `--I. pulchellus AB07

*Isobactrus setosus (Lohmann 1889) N47, AB07, N47 [=Aletes setosus N47, Rhombognathus setosus N47]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[AB07] Abé, H., & I. Bartsch. 2007. Historical biogeography of the halacarid mite genus Isobactrus (Prostigmata, Halacaridae). In: Morales-Malacara, J. B., V. M. Behan-Pelletier, E. Ueckermann, T. M. Pérez, E. G. Estrada-Venegas & M. Badii (eds) Acarology XI: Proceedings of the International Congress pp. 119–126. Instituto de Biología and Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Acarología: México.

[N47] Newell, I. M. 1947. A systematic and ecological study of the Halacaridae of eastern North America. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 10 (3): 1–232.