Macrodinychus (from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), meaning "tail", δι- (di-), meaning "two", and ὄνυξ (ónux), meaning "claw") is the sole genus in the monotypic Macrodinychidae, a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
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Macrodinychus (from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), meaning "tail", δι- (di-), meaning "two", and ὄνυξ (ónux), meaning "claw") is the sole genus in the monotypic Macrodinychidae, a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
==Species== Macrodinychidae contains one genus, with 22 recognized species: Genus Macrodinychus Berlese, 1917 Macrodinychus andrassyi Hirschmann, 1975 Macrodinychus baloghi Hirschmann, 1975 Macrodinychus bregetovaae (Hirschmann, 1975) Macrodinychus butuae (Hirschmann, 1975) Macrodinychus durmei Hirschmann, 1983 Macrodinychus extremicus sp. nov. Macrodinychus hirschmanni (Hiramatsu, 1977) Macrodinychus iriomotensis Hiramatsu, 1979 Macrodinychus kaszabi (Hirschmann, 1975) Macrodinychus kurosai Hiramatsu, 1975 Macrodinychus loksai Hirschmann, 1975 Macrodinychus mahunkai Hirschmann, 1975 Macrodinychus malayicus sp. nov. Macrodinychus multipennus (Hiramatsu, 1977) Macrodinychus multispinosus Sellnick, 1973 Macrodinychus parallelpipedus (Berlese, 1916) Synonym Macrodinychus paraguayensis Hirschmann, 1975 Macrodinychus sellnicki (Hirschmann & Zirngiebl-Nicol, 1975) Macrodinychus shibai Hiramatsu, 1980 Macrodinychus vietnamensis Hirschmann, 1983 Macrodinychus yonakuniensis Hiramatsu, 1979 Macrodinychus yoshidai Hiramatsu, 1979 Macrodinychus zicsii Hirschmann, 1975
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).