''Neodiplogynium'' is a genus of

parasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...

mite Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) of two large orders, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari. However, most recent genetic analyses do not recover the two as eac ...

s belonging to the family

Diplogyniidae Diplogyniidae is a family of parasitic mites belonging to the order Mesostigmata. Many are parasites on beetles but some live on larger animals (e.g., rats). Taxonomy This is a list of the described species. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's ...

. Members of this genus can be distinguished from related mites by the

sclerotized Sclerosis (also sclerosus in the Latin names of a few disorders) is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features. It may refer to: * Sclerosis (medicine), a hardening of tissue * in zoology, a process which forms sclerites, a hardened exo ...

anal and ventral plates being completely separated.

References

*''A new mite taken with rats in Puerto Rico (Acarina: Diplogyniidae)'', Irving Fox, Acarologia I Mesostigmata {{Mesostigmata-stub