Neophyllobius Berlese

Khanjani, Mohammad & Hoseini, Mohammad Ahmad, 2013, Three new species of the genus Neophyllobius Berlese (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Southern and Southwestern Iran, Zootaxa 3666 (4), pp. 510-522 : 510

Genus Neophyllobius Berlese

Type species: Neophyllobius elegans Berlese, 1886: 19 .

Diagnosis. The members of this genus can be recognized easily by: 1. Stylophore with a pair of looped peritremes, 2. Idiosoma with 14 or 15 pairs (pdx absent or present) of long and stout lanceolate setae, often set on prominent tubercles, 3. Genital valves with two pairs of setae (Khanjani et al. 2012), 4. Anal valves with three pairs of pseudanal setae, 5. Tarsi I and II with a single solenidion (ω) which is opposite to proximal tactile setae (vs´and vs´´), 6. Tarsi 9-10+1ω, 9-10+1ω, 7-8+0-1ω, 7-8; tibiae 9+1 φ, 8+1 φ, 8+1 φ, 7+1 φ, each female tibiae with one specialized seta(φ) but tibia I of male with two (φ).