Kalobrachypoda Viets, 1929

Smith, Ian M., Cook, David R. & Gerecke, Reinhard, 2015, Revision of the status of some genus-level water mite taxa in the families Pionidae Thor, 1900, Aturidae Thor, 1900, and Nudomideopsidae Smith, 1990 (Acari: Hydrachnidiae), Zootaxa 3919 (1), pp. 111-156 : 140

Subgenus Kalobrachypoda Viets, 1929

Axonopsis (Kalobrachypoda) : Cook, 1974a, p. 334, fig. 1411.

Diagnosis of adults. Character states of genus Brachypodopsis . Fourth leg of males with tibia unmodified but with tarsus expanded and bearing thick setae.

Type species. Kalobrachypoda rhopalopoda Viets.

Species included. Brachypodopsis (K.) rhopalopoda (Viets) (Sumatra, Java) (monobasic).

Distribution. Sumatra and Java.

Discussion. Cook (1974a) considered Kalobrachypoda to be a subgenus of Axonopsis and we propose here to transfer the taxon as a subgenus to the genus Brachypodopsis . The type species and only member of this subgenus appears to be a divergent offshoot of the species complex typified by Brachypodopsis baumi Halik and the status of this taxon will need to be reevaluated when the phylogeny of the genus Brachypodopsis is more completely known.