Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 332-356 : 347

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361432
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scientific name	Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942
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6.21. Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942 View in CoL *

Opilioacarus (Neocarus) texanus Vázquez & Klompen 2002: 318 View in CoL , figs. 1N, Q–V, 2H, 3C, 3F, 4D, 5B, 7D, 8D, 10F, 11D (redescription, new diagnosis)

Neocarus arizonicus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 128–129 , no figs.; Hammen 1966: 4 (junior synonym).

Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 127–128 View in CoL , plate I, figs. 1–9, plate II, figs. 10–20 (original description); Hammen 1966: 5, figs 1–21 (redescription without checking types); Vázquez & Klompen 2015: 544–545 View Cited Treatment , figs. 1C, 3C, 6C, 7C (redescription, new distribution)

Holotype: No information about the life stage, USA. Whereabouts unknown; according to Chamberlin & Mulaik (1942), types deposited in University of Utah, but the material was sent to the American Museum of Natural History many decades ago (Christy Bill, pers. comm.) and then moved to Cornell University (Ofelia Delgado, pers. comm.) but not found. The material is assumed to be lost.

Distribution: Texas, Arizona ( USA); Guerrero ( Mexico).

Etymology: Named after the state in which the original material was collected.