Belongs within: Hydryphantidae.
Wandesia is a genus of elongate-bodied water mites with widely separated coxae and lacking dorsal plates or genital flaps.
<==Wandesia Schechtel 1912RFF05 | i. s.: W. cavecerberumGS96 | W. saginataGS96 | W. troma Cook 1986H98 |--W. (Wandesia)S86 | |--W. (W.) centensis Habeeb 1973S86 | |--W. (W.) extendens Cook 1980S86 | |--W. (W.) racovitzai Gledhill 1970S86 | `--W. (W.) thori Schechtel 1912S86 |--W. (Allowandesia Schwoerbel 1961)S86 | `--W. (A.) japonica Imamura 1956S86 |--W. (Mesowandesia André & Naudo 1962)S86 | `--W. (M.) riparia Habeeb 1954S86 |--W. (Partnuniella Viets 1938)RFF05 | |--W. (P.) chechoi Cook 1988 [=W. (Pseudowandesia) chechoi]RFF05 | |--W. (P.) cubana Orghidan & Georgesco 1977S86 | |--W. (P.) lethaea (Besch 1964)RFF05 | |--W. (P.) stalagmophila Lundblad 1941RFF05 | |--W. (P.) thermalis (Viets 1938)RFF05 | `--W. (P.) walteri Lundblad 1937RFF05 `--W. (Pseudowandesia Habeeb 1958)RFF05 |--W. (P.) andiana Cook 1980RFF05 |--W. (P.) approximata Cook 1967S86 |--W. (P.) gaspensis Habeeb 1955S86 |--W. (P.) glareosa Weigmann & Schminke 1970S86 |--W. (P.) stygophila Szalay 1944S86 |--W. (P.) tanasachii Orgidan & Georgescu 1977S86 `--W. (P.) vermiformis Cook 1967S86
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[GS96] Gerecke, R., & A. Di Sabatino. 1996. Historical zoogeography and evolution of habitat preference in water mites (Hydracarina) of the central Mediterranean region. In: Mitchell, R., D. J. Horn, G. R. Needham & W. C. Welbourn (eds) Acarology IX vol. 1. Proceedings pp. 523–527. Ohio Biological Survey: Columbus (Ohio).
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[RFF05] Rosso de Ferradás, B., & H. R. Fernández. 2005. Elenco y biogeografía de los ácaros acuáticos (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) de Sudamérica. Graellsia 61 (2): 181–224.
[S86] Schwoerbel, J. 1986. Acari: “Hydrachnellae”. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 652–696. E. J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys: Leiden.