Hygrobates

Hygrobates fluviatilis, photographed by Nigrico.

Belongs within: Hygrobatidae.

Hygrobates is a genus of mostly soft-bodied water mites with the capitulum fused to coxae I and often with a ventral projection on the palpfemur and ventral denticles on the palpgenu.

<==Hygrobates Koch 1837 RFF05
    |--H. (Hygrobates) RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) ampliatus Viets 1936 RFF05
    |    |    |--H. a. ampliatus RFF05
    |    |    |--H. a. interpositus Viets 1954 RFF05
    |    |    `--H. a. productus Viets 1936 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) amplipalpis Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) apertus Viets 1936 RFF05
    |    |    |--H. a. apertus RFF05
    |    |    `--H. a. apertulus Viets 1954 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) clevamus Cook 1980 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) crassipes Lundblad 1937 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) curvipalpis Besseling 1949 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) dadayi Cook 1967 S86
    |    |--H. (H.) discrepans Lundblad 1937 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) diversidentatus Viets 1954 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) gracilidens Lundblad 1936 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) obtusidens Lundbald 1953 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) oxyrhynchus Viets 1954 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) phreaticus Cook 1967 S86
    |    |--H. (H.) plaumanni Lundblad 1936 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) plebejus Lundblad 1930 RFF05
    |    |    |--H. p. plebejus RFF05
    |    |    `--H. p. tamboensis Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) plicatus Lundblad 1942 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) porosus Lundblad 1938 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) procursus Viets 1936 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) sterrodermus Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    `--H. (H.) triangularis Lundblad 1937 RFF05
    |         |--H. t. triangularis RFF05
    |         `--H. t. lundbladi Viets 1938 RFF05
    |--H. (Hygrobatides Lundblad 1936) RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) angustiporus Viets 1954 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) distendens Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) longimanus Lundblad 1942 RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) pachydermis (Lundblad 1936) RFF05
    |    |--H. (H.) rufus (Lundblad 1937) RFF05
    |    `--H. (H.) transversalis Viets 1954 RFF05
    `--H. (Schubartella Viets 1937) RFF05
         |--H. (S.) longipes (Viets 1937) RFF05
         `--H. (S.) paraensis (Besch 1969) RFF05

Hygrobates incertae sedis:
  H. australicus Cook 1986 H98
  H. calliger Piersig 1896 VBB91
  H. calvotus WL09
  H. fluviatilis (Ström 1768) GS91
  H. hamatus Viets 1935 H98
  H. longipalpis (Hermann 1804) PH91
  H. longiporus CS91
  H. neocalliger WL09
  H. nigromaculatus Lebert 1879 D91
  H. salamandrarum WL09
  H. setosus DPD16
  H. trigonicus Koenike 1895 D91

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CS91] Cicolani, B., & A. Di Sabatino. 1991. Sensitivity of water mites to water pollution. 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. 465–474. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[DPD16] Dabert, M., H. Proctor & J. Dabert. 2016. Higher-level molecular phylogeny of the water mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 101: 75–90.

[D91] Davids, C. 1991. Water mites: the impact of larvae and adults on their host and prey populations. 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. 497–501. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[GS91] Gerecke, R., & J. Schwoerbel. 1991. Water quality and water mites (Acari, Actinedida) in the Upper Danube region, 1959-1984. 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. 483–491. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[PH91] Punčochár, P., & J. Hrbáček. 1991. Water mites in the plankton of Hubenov Reservoir and their relations to fish stock composition. 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. 449–457. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[RFF05] Rosso de Ferradás, B., & H. R. Fernández. 2005. Elenco y biogeografía de los ácaros acuáticos (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) de Sudamérica. Graellsia 61 (2): 181–224.

[S86] Schwoerbel, J. 1986. Acari: “Hydrachnellae”. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 652–696. E. J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[VBB91] Valdecasas, A. G., A. Baltanás & E. Bello. 1991. A preliminary assessment of single rocks for sampling water mites. 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. 503–507. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[WL09] Walter, D. E., E. E. Lindquist, I. M. Smith, D. R. Cook & G. W. Krantz. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3^rd ed. pp. 233–420. Texas Tech University Press.