Imparipes

Imparipes sp., from Bee Mite ID.

Belongs within: Pygmephoroidea.

Imparipes is a genus of scutacarid mites with five segments in leg IV, three setae on tibia IV, and tarsus IV with an expanded base becoming abruptly thin distally.

<==Imparipes Berlese 1903H98
|--I. apicolaL86
|--I. australiensis Mahunka 1974H98
|--I. australis Mahunka 1967H98
|--I. bornemisszai Mahunka 1967H98
|--I. caledonicusWL09
|--I. disparWL09
|--I. histricinus Berlese 1903 [=I. hystricinus (l. c.)]H98
|--I. insignis Mahunka 1970SL71
|--I. karafiati Mahunka 1967H98
|--I. tocatlphilusWL09
|--I. woodi Mahunka 1974H98
`--I. zilui Mahunka 1967H98

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[L86] Lindquist, E. E. 1986. The world genera of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata): a morphological, phylogenetic, and systematic revision, with a reclassification of family-group taxa in the Heterostigmata. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 118 (S136): 1–517.

[SL71] Spain, A. V., & M. Luxton. 1971. Catalog and bibliography of the Acari of the New Zealand subregion. Pacific Insects Monograph 25: 179–226.

[WL09] Walter, D. E., E. E. Lindquist, I. M. Smith, D. R. Cook & G. W. Krantz. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3rd ed. pp. 233–420. Texas Tech University Press.

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