
Belongs within: Sarcoptoidea.
Cytostethum is an Australasian genus of atopomelid mites parasitic on marsupials, primarily Macropodidae. Males lack an ambulacrum on tarsus IV.
<==Cytostethum Domrow 1956H98 |--C. charactum Domrow 1956H98 |--C. clibanarius Domrow 1961H98 |--C. dendriticum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. donrowi Fain 1972H98 |--C. euphallus Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. gracile Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. hamatum Fain & Domrow 1984H98 |--C. inerme Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. intermedium Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. macropus Fain 1970H98 |--C. maydenense Fain & Domrow 1975 [=C. maydenenses (l. c.)]H98 |--C. mediosquamatum Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. mediostriatum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. mesocharactum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. mollisoni Domrow 1961H98 |--C. nanophyes Domrow 1956 [=C. nanophys (l. c.)]H98 |--C. neotubiferum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. nudum Fain 1972H98 |--C. postscutatum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. postsquamatum Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. potorous Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. procharactum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. promeces Domrow 1956H98 |--C. prosquamatum Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. pseudocharactum Domrow 1956H98 |--C. pseudotubiferum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. spinulatum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. tasmaniense Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. thetis Fain & Domrow 1975H98 |--C. thylogale Fain 1970H98 |--C. tooloomense Fain & Domrow 1974H98 |--C. trachypyx Domrow 1956H98 |--C. tubiferum Fain & Domrow 1974H98 `--C. wallabia Fain & Domrow 1975H98
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.