Selenoribates Strenzke, 1961

Pfingstl, Tobias, 2013, Revealing the diversity of a once small taxon: the genus Selenoribates (Acari, Oribatida, Selenoribatidae), ZooKeys 312, pp. 39-63 : 40

Genus Selenoribates Strenzke, 1961

Remarks.

The following diagnosis summarizes the characters provided by Strenzke (1961), Grandjean (1966), Abd-El-Hamid (1973) and includes the characters of the present descriptions.

Small sized (198-308 × 119-185 µm) intertidal mites. Cerotegument granular. Interlamellar setae short or minute. Lamellar ridges present but short. Sensillus flagelliform and long. Pedotectum I small but robust, pedotectum II absent. Notogaster with 14 pairs of setae, c3 absent. Obvious depressions, variable in number and shape, present on anterior part of notogaster. Two median epimeral cavities present. Epimeral setal formula 1-0-1-1. Genital plates with three-four pairs of setae. Aggenital setae absent. Two-three pairs of adanal setae and one-three pairs of anal setae. Legs monodactylous; claws with one or two proximoventral teeth. Juveniles plicate with large centrodorsal plate.