Nenteria, Oudemans, 1915

Abo-Shnaf, Reham, Allam, Sally F. M. & Othman, Nehal A. A., 2024, A new species of mite in the genus Nenteria (Uropodina, Trematuridae), with a key to the Egyptian species, Zootaxa 5471 (2), pp. 268-286 : 281

Key to the Egyptian Nenteria species (female)

1. Pygidial shield with anterior projection, epistome with long bifid or trifid tip...................................... 2

- Pygidial shield without anterior projection, epistome with long sharp tip......................................................................................... Nenteria hypotrichus El-Borolossy & El-Banhawy , in Afia 1995

2. Dorsal setae short; opisthogastric region with seven pairs of setae (JV2, JV4, JV5 and ZV1–ZV4), pygidial shield with curved sharp-tipped projection; epistome with trifid tip........... Nenteria egypticus ( Abo-Shnaf, El-Bishlawy & Allam, 2018)

- Dorsal setae long; opisthogastric region with eight pairs of setae (JV1–JV5 and ZV3–ZV5); pygidial shield with curved bifid projection; epistome with bifid tip............................... Nenteria bahariyaensis n. sp. Abo-Shnaf & Allam

Nenteria hypotrichus El-Borolossy & El-Banhawy , in Afia 1995 is a nomen nudum. Nenteria hypotrichus was described in an unpublished Ph D thesis by Afia (1995). Afia (1995) does not make the name N. hypotrichus available because the dissertation does not meet the criteria for publication (ICZN Article 8.1.3). El-Banhawy et al. (1997) also does not make the name available because they did not designate type specimens (ICZN Article 72.3), but it is included here because it represents a taxonomically useful concept.