Belongs within: Hygrobatidae.
Aspidiobates is a genus of water mites found in Australasia and South America characterised by a dorsal shield of one large anterior platelet and multiple smaller posterior platelets, three or four pairs of genital acetabula, and legs without swimming hairs.
<==Aspidiobates Lundblad 1941RFF05
|--A. aethes Harvey & Cook 1988H98
|--A. bidewel Harvey & Cook 1988H98
|--A. geometricus Cook 1986H98
|--A. harveyi Cook 1988RFF05
|--A. pilbara Harvey 1988H98
|--A. scutatus Lundblad 1941H98
|--A. similis Cook 1986H98
|--A. spatiosus Viets 1969H98
|--A. unidorsalis Smit 1942H98
`--A. wittenoom Harvey 1988H98
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[RFF05] Rosso de Ferradás, B., & H. R. Fernández. 2005. Elenco y biogeografía de los ácaros acuáticos (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) de Sudamérica. Graellsia 61 (2): 181–224.