Neolobogynium, Hicks, 1957

Saito, Hajime, 2022, A New Species of Neolobogynium and New Records of Lobogynium sudhiri of the Mite Family Diplogyniidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Trigynaspida) Phoretic on Some Beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae, Synteliidae, and Geotrupidae) from Japan, Species Diversity 27 (2), pp. 329-340 : 337

Key to Species of Neolobogynium

1. Dorsum with three pairs of long medio-lateral setae........................................ N. indicum

—Dorsum with four or five pairs of long lateral and mediolateral (excluding setae Z5) setae..................... 2

2. Shape of marginal setae two-tined; tips of dorso-central setae j1 and medio-lateral setae Z5 barbed.... N. zairiensis

— Marginal setae simple.............................. 3

3. Both male and female have five pairs of long setae; tips of dorsal setae Z5 barbed; two pairs of setae present on each ventri-marginal shield; setae JV3 not longest among ventral setae posterior to coxae IV........ N. americanum *

— Dorsum with five pairs of long setae in male but four pairs in female; polygonal elements of dorsal reticulation smaller than N. americanum ; tips of Z5 not barbed, if not completely smooth; one pair of setae on ventri-marginal shield; setae JV3 longest among ventral setae posterior to coxae IV............................. N. sorae sp. nov.