Liebstadia

Miko, L. & Weigmann, G., 1996, Notes on the genus Liebstadia Oudemans, 1906 (Acarina, Oribatida) in Central Europe, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis 52, pp. 73-100 : 74

Genus Liebstadia OUDEMANS, 1906

syn.:

Rajskibates BALOGH et BALOGH, 1984 (type species: P. variabilis RAJSKI, 1958)

Balogh et Balogh (1992) synonymised erroneously Rajskibates with Protoribates .

Type species: Liebstadia similis (MICHAEL, 1888)

Diagnosis: Scheloribatids with a lamella running from lamellar seta to interlamellar seta and backwards as a more or less distinet ridge; pro- and sublamella well developed, prolamella reaching rostral seta. Notogaster with ten pairs of notogastral setae; octotaxic System developed as areae porosae, there is a tendency of reduetion of the 4 pairs of notogastral areae to 3 pairs; pteromorphs from very small to large blades, immovable. 4 pairs of genital setae; legs monodactyl.