Djeboa K. Viets, 1911

Pešić, Vladimir, Cook, David, Gerecke, Reinhard & Smit, Harry, 2013, The water mite family Mideopsidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia): a contribution to the diversity in the Afrotropical region and taxonomic changes above species level, Zootaxa 3720 (1), pp. 1-75 : 6

Genus Djeboa K. Viets, 1911 , nov. stat.

Type species: Djeboa multidentata K. Viets, 1911

Diagnosis: Surface of dorsal shield may be plain but more often with a depressed central area surrounded by lateral ridges; body pores outside the ridges relatively large and those inside the ridges very small; posterior suture lines of Cx-IV tending to extend more or less at right angles to long axis of ventral shield; coxae not forming a medial suture line; no ridges extending anterolaterally from region of insertion of IV-L; Cxgl-2 and an additional pair of glandularia located immediately posterior to suture lines of Cx-IV; condyles associated with openings for insertion of IV-L; five pairs of Ac; swimming setae present; P-4 lacking ventral projections; except for genital field, no sexual dimorphism of idiosoma, legs or palp.

Remarks: The combination of five pairs of acetabula, two pairs of glandularia posterior to the fourth coxae and no ventral projections on P-4 will easily distinguish this genus from all others.

Distribution: Africa south of the Sahara, and Madagascar.