Belongs within: Licneremaeoidea.
Scutovertex is a cosmopolitan genus of oribatid mites (Subías 2004).
Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum with lamellae narrow, translamella well developed. Notogaster oval, usually with quadrangular lenticulus; nine pairs of notogastral setae; two pairs of areae porosae; pteromorphae absent. Six pairs of genital setae; one pair of aggenital setae; two pairs of anal setae; three pairs of adanal setae. Legs tridactyle.
<==Scutovertex Michael 1879 [incl. Neoscutovertex Mihelčič 1957]S04 |--S. pileatusSK10 `--+--S. pannonicus Schuster 1958SK10, S04 `--+--*S. sculptus Michael 1879S04, SK10, S04 (see below for synonymy) `--S. minutus (Koch 1836)SK10, S04 (see below for synonymy) Scutovertex incertae sedis: S. alpinus Willmann 1953S04 S. bulgaricus Kunst 1961S04 S. clypeatus (Nicolet 1855) (n. d.)S04 [=Tegeocranus clypeatusS04, Carabodes clypeatusM98] S. evansi Mahunka 1984S04 S. fossatus Wallwork 1967S04 S. glaber Mihelčič 1957S04 [=S. (*Neoscutovertex) glaberS04, BB92] S. glandulosus Balogh & Mahunka 1965S04 S. inlenticulatus Sitnikova 1975S04 S. jindianensis Wen 1985S04 S. laminipes Hammer 1961S04 S. marginatus Mahunka 1983S04 S. neonominatus Subías 2004 [=S. perforatus Sitnikova 1975 non Berlese 1910]S04 S. niger Moskacheva 1964S04 S. ornatus Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1964S04 S. perforatulus Mihelčič 1958S04 S. pilosetosus Polderman 1977S04 S. punctatus Sitnikova 1975S04 S. serratus Sitnikova 1975S04 S. spinipes Berlese 1916 (n. d.)S04 S. subspinipes Balogh 1959S04
*Scutovertex sculptus Michael 1879S04, SK10, S04 [incl. S. (Neoscutovertex) granulatus Mihelčič 1957S04, Eremaeus ovalis Koch 1841 (n. d.)S04, S. ovalisBA85, S. (Neoscutovertex) rugosus Mihelčič 1957S04, S. steineri Mihelčič 1956S04]
Scutovertex minutus (Koch 1836)SK10, S04 [=Cepheus minutusS04, Cymbaeremaeus minutusM98; incl. Eremaeus ovalis siculus Berlese 1887S04, Scutovertex siculusBA85]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BB92] Balogh, J., & P. Balogh. 1992. The Oribatid Mites Genera of the World vol. 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum: Budapest.
[BA85] Bernini, F., & R. Arcidiacono. 1985. Notulae oribatologicae XXXVI. A catalogue of the Sicilian oribatids (Acarida, Oribatida). Animalia 12 (1–3): 165–205.
[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.
[SK10] Schäffer, S., S. Koblmüller, T. Pfingstl, C. Sturmbauer & G. Krisper. 2010. Ancestral state reconstruction reveals multiple independent evolution of diagnostic morphological characters in the “Higher Oribatida” (Acari), conflicting with current classification. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 246.
[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.