Pachylaelapini Berlese, 1913

MAŠÁN, PETER & HALLIDAY, BRUCE, 2014, Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 3776 (1), pp. 1-66 : 27

Tribe: Pachylaelapini Berlese, 1913

Genus Neopachylaelaps Mašán, 2007

Neopachylaelaps Mašán, 2007a: 102.

Type species Neopachylaelaps mancus Mašán, 2007, by original designation.

Mašán (2007a) based his diagnosis of the monotypic European genus Neopachylaelaps on the following character states: (1) deficient chaetotaxy of some leg segments, specifically genu I lacking ventral seta av2 and dorsal seta pd3, femur I and tibia I lacking ventral seta av2, and genu III lacking ventral seta av1; (2) deficient chaetotaxy of the dorsal shield, with setae S1 and R absent; (3) moderate reduction of the anterior section of the peritremes, with tips not reaching the anterior dorsal surface; (4) proximal insertion of the spermatodactyl on the movable digit in the male; (5) reduction of palp tibial projections in the male, with only a simple conical tubercle present; and (6) epistome produced into long, lanceolate and apically bifurcate projection.