Trichoribates Berlese, 1910

Maruyama, I., Shimano, S. & Bayartogtokh, B., 2016, Two new species of the genus Trichoribates (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae) from Central Japan, Acarologia 56 (2), pp. 213-224 : 214

Genus Trichoribates Berlese, 1910

Diagnosis of adult — Rostrum rounded; lamellae wide, with well-developed cusps and translamella; lamellar cusps with or without lateral and median dens; bothridia cup-shaped; sensilli with clavate or oval head, rounded or flattened distally; tutoria broad, with cusps pointed or dentate distally; custodia with short to long narrowly pointed cusps; notogaster with large pteromorphs curved ventrally, line of desclerotization absent; lenticulus present or absent; 10 or 11 pairs of notogastral setae, setae dp present or absent; four pairs of notogastral porose areas (exception, sacculi in T. polaris Hammer, 1953 ), porose areas Am and Ah present; six pairs of genital setae; all legs heterotridactylous; tibiae I with dorsodistal apophysis bearing solenidion Φ 2; seta l" of tibiae and genua I, II, and sometimes that of tibiae and genua III, IV thick, heavily barbed (see also Behan-Pelletier 1985; Bayartogtokh and Schatz 2008).