Belongs within: Brachypylina.
Eremobelba is a genus of oribatid mites with branched epimeral setae and usually polygonal granulation. The genus is found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world with the species Eremobelba gracilior being found as far north as southern Canada in North America.
Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Lamellar setae originating nearer to rostral than to interlamellar setae. Notogaster usually with polygonally arranged granulation; affixed exuvia absent; eleven pairs of notogastral setae. Epimeral setae partly 3-5-branched. Six pairs of genital setae, eight pairs of aggenital setae, two pairs of anal setae, three pairs of adanal setae. Legs monodactyle.
Eremobelba Berlese 1908 [Eremobelbidae]S04
|--*E. leporosa (Haller 1884)S04 [=Eremaeus leporosusS04, Tegeocranus leporosusM98]
|--E. balazsi Mahunka 1983S04
|--E. bella Hammer 1982S04
|--E. bellicosa Balogh & Mahunka 1967S04
|--E. bisulcata Balogh 1958 (n. d.)S04
|--E. breviseta Balogh 1958S04
|--E. brevispathulata Balogh & Mahunka 1969S04
|--E. capitata Berlese 1913S04
|--E. cellulosa Mahunka 1997S04
|--E. comteae Mahunka 1988S04
|--E. coronata Pérez-Íñigo & Baggio 1989S04
|--E. curtipeata Wen 1996S04
|--E. esposi Balogh & Mahunka 1969S04
|--E. flexuosa Hammer 1979S04
|--E. foliata Hammer 1958S04
|--E. geographica Berlese 1908S04
|--E. gracilior Berlese 1908 (see below for synonymy)S04
|--E. graciosa Mahunka 1984S04
|--E. hamata Hammer 1961S04
|--E. heterotricha Mahunka 1977S04
|--E. himalayensis Mondal & Kundu 1984S04
|--E. indica Ghosh & Bhaduri 1978S04
|--E. japonica Aoki 1959S04
|--E. leporoides Jacot 1938 [=E. leporosus leporoides]S04
|--E. longisetosa Subías, Ruiz & Kahwash 1990S04
|--E. mahunkai Balogh 1968S04
|--E. milliae Sanyal 1992S04
|--E. minuta Aoki & Wen 1983S04
|--E. nagaroorica Haq 1978S04
|--E. obscura Balogh 1958 (n. d.)S04
|--E. okinawa Aoki 1987S04
|--E. ornata Balogh & Mahunka 1969S04
|--E. perrugosa Balogh & Mahunka 1968S04
|--E. piffli Mahunka 1985S04
|--E. porcella Mahunka 2001S04
|--E. pulchella Balogh & Mahunka 1969S04
|--E. shilongensis Sanyal 1988S04
|--E. truncata Wen 1996S04
|--E. tuberculata Mahunka 1982S04
|--E. wittmeri Bayoumi & Mahunka 1979S04
|--E. yunnanensis Aoki & Yamamoto 2000S04
`--E. zicsii Balogh & Mahunka 1969S04
Eremobelba gracilior Berlese 1908 [incl. E. leporosus flagellaris Jacot 1938, Oribata neosota Banks 1909, E. nervosa Hartenstein 1962]S04
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
Balogh, J., & P. Balogh. 1992. The Oribatid Mites Genera of the World vol. 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum: Budapest.
[M98] Michael, A. D. 1898. Oribatidae. In: H. Lohmann (ed.) Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen vol. 3. Acarina pp. 1–93. R. Friedländer und Sohn: Berlin.
[S04] Subías, L. S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758–2002). Graellsia 60 (número extraordinario): 3–305.