Bryobia Koch

Arabuli, Tea, Maric, Ivana & Auger, Philippe, 2019, Revision of the genusPseudobryobia McGregor, 1950 (Acari, Tetranychidae), Acarologia 1950 (3), pp. 291-300 : 297

Bryobia Koch

Bryobia Koch, 1836:8-9 ; Pritchard & Baker, 1955:14; Bagdasarian, 1957:51; Reck, 1959:84; Wainstein, 1960:94; Manson, 1967:78-80; Tuttle & Baker, 1968:4; Livshitz & Mitrofanov, 1971:49; Mitrofanov, 1973:12; Meyer, 1974:13; Tuttle et al., 1976:4; Gonzales, 1977:634; Meyer, 1987:8; Mitrofanov et al., 1987:142-143; Baker & Tuttle, 1994:17; Smiley & Baker, 1995:135. Type-species: Bryobia praetiosa Koch

Genus diagnosis — Ambulacrum with true claws uncinate, empodium with tenent hairs, 1 pair or more on empodium I, more than 1 pair on empodia II-IV; 2 pairs of duplex setae on tarsus I, 1 pair on tarsus II, duplex setae on tarsi III-IV associated or dissociated, coxisternal formula 2-1-1-1. Body broadly rounded without anterior cleft, prodorsum with anterior lobes more or less developed, sometimes absent, with 4 pairs of setae, opisthosoma with 12 pairs of setae, location of central fourth pair (f 1) varying from normal to marginal; one pair of aggenital setae (ag 1) and 3 pairs of pseudanal setae (ps 1-3) present, 2 pairs of ventro-caudals (h 2-3) present ventrally, 1 pair of hypostomal subcapitular seta (m).