Belongs within: Poronoticae.
The Selenoribatidae are a group of oribatid mites found in intertidal habitats in tropical and northern temperate regions.
Characters (from Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009): Length 370–420 µm. Gnathosoma normal; chelicerae with dentate chelae, with two setae. Prodorsum without true lamellae; bothridial setae reduced. Octotaxic system absent. Epimeral setal formula 1-0-1-1. Genital plates with three pairs of setae. Tarsus II with one solenidion.
<==SelenoribatidaePH22 |--Thalassozetes Schuster 1963S04 | `--*T. riparius Schuster 1963S04 |--Psednobates Luxton 1992S04 | `--*P. uncunguis Luxton 1992S04 |--Arotrobates Luxton 1992S04 | |--*A. lanceolatus Luxton 1992S04 | `--A. granulatus Luxton 1992S04 |--Selenoribates Strenzke 1961S04 | |--*S. foveiventris Strenzke 1961S04 | |--S. ghardaqensis Abdel-Hamid 1973S04 | `--S. mediterraneus Grandjean 1966S04 |--Schusteria Grandjean 1968S04 | |--*S. littorea Grandjean 1968S04 | |--S. melanomerus Marshall & Pugh 2000S04 | `--S. ugraseni Marshall & Pugh 2000S04 |--Carinozetes bermudensis Pfingstl & Schuster 2012PK14 `--Indopacifica pantaiPH22
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
Norton, R. A., & V. M. Behan-Pelletier. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3rd ed. pp. 430–564. Texas Tech University Press.
[PH22] Pfingstl, T., S. F. Hiruta, I. Bardel-Kahr, Y. Obae & S. Shimano. 2022. Another mite species discovered via social media—Ameronothrus retweet sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida) from Japanese coasts, exhibiting an interesting sexual dimorphism. International Journal of Acarology 48 (4–5): 348–358.
[PK14] Pfingstl, T., & G. Krisper. 2014. Plastron respiration in marine intertidal oribatid mites (Acari, Fortuyniidae and Selenoribatidae). Zoomorphology 133: 359–378.
[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.