Indotritia Jacot, 1929

Liu, D., 2015, Review of Indotritia (Acari, Oribatida, Oribotritiidae) with a world checklist, a key to all known species, and a description of a new species from China, Acarologia 55 (4), pp. 397-416 : 398

Indotritia Jacot, 1929

Euphthiracarus (Indotritia) Jacot, 1929, p. 213 .

Indotritia: Jacot, 1930, p. 242 .

Indotritia: Sellnick, 1959, p. 147 ; Märkel, 1964, p. 24; 1968, p. 731; Walker, 1964, p. 34; Aoki, 1980, p. 59; Marshall et al., 1987, p. 65; Balogh & Balogh, 1987, p. 8; Balogh & Mahunka, 1987, p. 172; Balogh & Balogh, 1988, p. 32; Mahunka, 1990b, p. 50; Niedbała, 2000, p. 108; 2001a, p. 297; 2001b, p. 85; 2002a, p. 42; 2003, p. 275; 2004a, p. 35; 2006a, p. 13; 2011, p. 60; Subías, 2004, p. 43.

Indotritia (Indotritia) Jacot, 1929 : Mahunka, 1988, p. 354; Balogh & Balogh, 1992, p. 26; Niedbała, 1998a, p. 35; 2001b, p. 85; Subías, 2004, p. 43.

Indotritia (Afrotritia) Mahunka, 1988, p. 354 ; Mahunka, 1990b, p. 53; Balogh & Balogh, 1992, p. 26; Niedbała, 1998a, p. 34; 2001b, p. 86; Subías, 2004, p. 43.

Indotritia (Zeaotritia) Mahunka, 1988, p. 354 ; Niedbała, 2000, p. 337; Subías, 2004, p. 43.

Zeaotritia Mahunka, 1988: Balogh & Balogh, 1992, p. 26.

Type species: Indotritia krakatauensis Sellnick, 1923 .

Diagnosis — Median carina absent; one or two pairs of lateral carinae present; bothridial squamae situated above bothridia; sensilli usually setiform, smooth; interlamellar setae arising posterolaterally, rostral setae in anterior median position; posterior median apodeme absent. Notogaster with 14 pairs of setae; a terminal sinus present; vestigial setae f 1 situated anterior or ventral to h 1 setae; openings of opisthonotal glands (gla) and lyrifissures: ia, im, ip, ih, ips. Ventral region: setae h of infracapitular mentum usually very long, considerably longer than distance between them; palps five-segmented, but its genua and femora not hinged, palpal setal formula: 0-2-0-2-9(1); genito-aggenital scissures incomplete, these plates are fused anteriorly; internal transversal apodeme present; ano-genital cleft present or absent, if present, mostly short; genital plates with an extension anteriorly; eight or nine pairs of genital setae present. Legs heterotridactylous, with normal chaetome; solenidia on tarsi II with coupled setae; solenidia on genua IV present; setae d on tibiae IV reduced and coupled with the solenidia (updated from Niedbała 2011).

Remarks — The concept of higher taxa in the Euphthiracaroidea is related to the fusion of the genital and aggenital plates, and anal and adanal plates, so I think the separation of these plates is a sufficient argument to divide Indotritia into three sub-genera: Indotritia (Indotritia) , Indotritia (Afrotritia) and Indotritia (Zeaotritia) .

Distribution — Cosmopolitan.