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Oplitis BERLESE 1884

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Oplitis BERLESE, 1884

The revision and the identification key to the species groups and the species were made by HIRSCHMANN (1991).

The main characteristics of the genus Oplitis are the following (HIRSCHMANN 1993): Idiosoma: Shape oval or circular, idiosoma small. Gnathosoma: Corniculi short and horn-like. Laciniae with some branches and covered by long hairs. Three to five serrated branches on the base of epistome. Tritosternum with serrated margin. Chelicerae with nodus.

Oplitis species are known from Europe, North and South America, and Asia, and they are widely distributed in the west and east Ethiopian region (WIŚNIEWSKI 1993).

Type species: Oplitis paradoxa (BERLESE, 1884)

Notes

Published as part of Kontschán, J., 2006, Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) Species From Angola, pp. 1-20 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5731774

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Biodiversity

Family
Trachyuropodidae
Genus
Oplitis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
BERLESE
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Oplitis BERLESE, 1884 sec. Kontschán, 2006