Neopetrobia Wainstein, 1956

Kamran, Muhammad, Mirza, Jawwad Hassan & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2016, The genus Paraplonobia Wainstein and Neopetrobia Wainstein (Acari, Trombidiformes, Tetranychidae) from Saudi Arabia: new species, new records and key to the world species of Paraplonobia, ZooKeys 598, pp. 27-55 : 40

Taxon classification Animalia Prostigmata Tetranychidae

Genus Neopetrobia Wainstein, 1956

Monoceronychus : Pritchard and Baker 1955: 77.

Neopetrobia : Wainstein 1956: 151, Wainstein 1960 a: 128, Tuttle and Baker 1968: 57, Meyer 1974: 93-94.

Type species.

Neopetrobia dubinini Wainstein, 1956.

Diagnosis.

Based on Baker and Tuttle 1968, Gutierrez 1955, Meyer 1974, Meyer 1987, and Bolland et al. 1998.

True claws pad like, each bearing a pair of tenant hairs; empodial pad longer than true claws, bearing a row of tenant hairs, distally not coalescent; dorsum with 3 pairs of prodorsal setae which are short and spindle shaped or spatulate; setal tubercles small or nonexistent; fourth pair of dorsocentral setae (f1) widely spaced, not normal as c1; peritremes anastomosing distally.