Oxus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Acariformes
Ordo: Trombidiformes
Subordo: Prostigmata
Cohort: Anystina
Hypordo: Parasitengona
Superfamilia: Lebertioidea

Familia: Oxidae
Genus: Oxus
Subgenera: O. (Flabellifrontipoda) – O. (Gnaphiscus) – O. (Oxus)
Name

Oxus Kramer, 1877
Synonyms

Marica Koch, 1836
Pseudomarica Neuman, 1880
Frontipoda Koenike, 1891
Gnaphiscus Koenike, 1896 [subgenus]
Pseudoxus Thor, 1901
Protoxus Thor, 1911] [hypothet.]
Gnaphoxus Thor, 1913
Flabellifrontipoda Lundblad, 1947 [subgenus]

References

Di Sabatino, A.; Gerecke, R.; Gledhill, T.; Smit, H. 2009: On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea. Zootaxa, 2266: 1–34. Abstract & excerpt.
Smit, H., 2011: New species of water mites from New Guinea (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Halacaridae). Acarologia 51 (3): 321–345. Abstract and full article: DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20112017.
Tuzovskij, P.V. 2013: Larval morphology of Lebertia longiseta Bader, 1955, L. dubia Thor, 1899 and Oxus nodigerus Koenike, 1898 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae, Oxidae). Zootaxa 3619(5): 569–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.5.6 Reference page.