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Acarology 



Figure 246 Mideopsella 

 forficicalpis Lundblad. 

 Venter of female. (After 

 Lundblad 1943) 



Mideopsidae Thor, 1928 



Figure 246 



Diagnosis: The body of these mites is more 

 or less flattened, armored, and has a dorsal 

 suture. Usually the dorsal shield is in one 

 piece. The palpal tibia is shorter than the 

 femur and genu combined and usually has a 

 process on the inner margin, or only spines 

 or small hairs may be present distally. The 

 coxal plates are more or less united into one 

 group. The genital indentation reaches to the 

 posterior end of coxal plates i. Swimming 

 hairs may or may not be present on the legs. 

 Usually found in the indentation formed by 

 coxal plates iv the genital organ has three to 

 five pairs of genital suckers. 



Mideopsinae Koenike, 1910 



Genera and subgenera: 



1. M/V/^op^/i' Neumann, 1880 



a. Mideopsis s. str. 



Type. Hydrachua orbicularis MLiller, 1776 (= Mideopsis depressa 

 Neumann, 1880) 



b. Neoxystonotiis Lundblad, 1927 

 Type. Mideopsis torrei Marshall, 1927 



c. Octomideopsis Vieis, 1931 



Type. Mideopsis minutus Soar, 1910 



d. Paraxystonotusl.undh\2id, 1936 



Type. Xystonotiis willmanni Viets, 1920 



e. Xystonotiis Wolcott, 1900 



Type. Xystonotiis asper Wolcott, 1900 



2. Notomideopsis Wolcott, 1905 



Type. Mideopsis spinipes Nordenskiold, 1904 



Djeboinae Viets, 1935 

 Genus and subgenera: 

 Djeboa Viets, 1911 

 a. Djeboa s. str. 



Type. Djeboa nudtidentata Viets, 1911 



