Euphthiracarus Ewing, 1917

Niedbała, Wojciech, 2017, Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Tanzania, Acarologia 57 (4), pp. 957-1072 : 979

Euphthiracarus Ewing, 1917

Hummelia Oudemans, 1916 “gen. inq.”

Pseudotritia Willmann, 1919 (subgen.): Mahunka 1990 a

Niedbalaia Mahunka, 1999 syn by Niedbała 2001 Euphthiracarus: Märkel 1964 , Balogh and Mahunka 1983, Mahunka 1990 a, Niedbała 2008b Euphthiracarus (Euphthiracarus) : Märkel, 1964, Subías 2004

Type species: Phthiracarus flavus Ewing, 1908 .

Diagnosis — Prodorsum without median crista; one or two pairs of lateral carinae present; bothridial scales situated below bothridia; posterior median apodeme present; lamellar setae anteriorly of interlamellar setae. Notogaster (with 14 pairs of setae) covered with slightly porose cuticle or strong sculpture and with a terminal fissure; one pair of openings of lateral opisthonotal glands (gla) and five pairs of lyrifissures: ia, im, ip, ips, ih present. Ventral region; palps with formula: 2-2- 8(1); both anterior and posterior interlocking triangles present; anogenital cleft present or absent; three pairs of anal and three pairs of adanal setae present, lyrifissures iad located between ad 2 and ad 3. Legs: trochanters III and IV with two setae, genua IV with solenidia, famuli situated far from the solenidia, solenidia ř 1 and ř 2 on tarsi II without coupled setae, seta d on tarsi IV comparatively long and not coupled with the solenidion; tarsi mono- or tridactylous.