Paenoppia Woolley & Higgins, 1965

Lindo, Zoë, 2018, Diversity of Peloppiidae (Oribatida) in North America, Acarologia 58 (8), pp. 91-97 : 94

Paenoppia Woolley & Higgins

The genus Paenoppia is unique among the Peloppiidae in having a combination of pelopsiform chelicerae and lamellae that are close, or nearly touching, and / or connected by a translamellae. Paenoppia is monospecific with the holotype of Paenoppia forficula Woolley & Higgins and eight paratypes described from a single location in Colorado State. Unconfirmed records of P. forficula were reported from other locations in Colorado, and two locations in Oregon State including the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest ( Moldenke and Fichter 1988). In the Canadian National Collection in Ottawa, Canada, there exists two potentially new species of Paenoppia , one from the state of New Mexico and a second from two locations in Alabama – the latter possessing a translamella with a tooth.