Macrogena Wallwork, 1966

Ermilov, Sergey G. & Minor, Maria A., 2015, The oribatid mite genus Macrogena (Acari, Oribatida, Ceratozetidae), with description of two new species from New Zealand, ZooKeys 506, pp. 13-26 : 14

Taxon classification Animalia Oribatida Ceratozetidae

Genus Macrogena Wallwork, 1966

Type species.

Macrogena monodactyla Wallwork, 1966

Diagnosis

(partially based on data from Wallwork 1966; Hammer 1967). Ceratozetidae with rostrum with medial rectangular ledge formed by two lateral incisions; rostral setae inserted dorsally or dorso-laterally on prodorsum; lamellar and interlamellar setae strong, straight; bothridial setae fusiform or globular; lamellae large, with short cusps, connected by translamella; tutoria and genal teeth long, reach the level of insertions of rostral setae; dorsophragmata fused medially; notogaster with three or four pairs of porose areas; ten pairs of short and thin notogastral setae; five pairs of genital, one pair of aggenital, two pair of anal, and three pairs of adanal setae; legs mono- or tridactylous.