Testudacarus Walter, 1928

O'Neill, Joseph C., Fisher, J. Ray, Nelson, Whitney A., Skvarla, Micheal J., Fisher, Danielle M. & Dowling, Ashley P. G., 2016, Systematics of testudacarine torrent mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) with descriptions of 13 new species from North America, ZooKeys 582, pp. 13-110 : 25-26

Taxon classification Animalia Trombidiformes Torrenticolidae

Testudacarus Walter, 1928

Testudacarus Walter 1928: 75; Viets 1935: 601; Viets 1936: 143, 232; Lundblad 1941: 364; * Vitzthum 1942: 848; Marshall 1943: 318; Radford 1950: 120; Baker and Wharton 1952: 295; Pennak 1953: 479, 483-484; Bergstrom 1953: 157; Mitchell 1954: 40; Habeeb 1954: 14; Imamura 1955: 181; Viets 1956: 156, 255; Habeeb 1959a: 21; Newell 1959: 1086, 1099-1100; Habeeb 1961: 6; Lundblad 1967: 418; Conroy 1968: 29; Habeeb 1969: 2; Winger et al. 1972: 217; Barr 1972: 57-58, 67-68, 84, 86; Cook 1974: 145-146; Habeeb 1974a: 1; Habeeb 1974b: 1; Imamura 1976: 283; Barr 1977: 879; Williams et al. 1977: 2136; Pennak 1978: 497, 503; Fuste 1980: H7; Smith 1982: 901, 905, 922-923, 925-927, 929; Barr 1982: 155; Laubitz et al. 1983: 38; Viets 1987: 222, 724; Smith 1987: 51; Williams and Hogg 1988: 45; Bader 1988: 88, 90; Pennak 1989: 523, 528, 530; Peckarsky et al. 1990: 300, 320-321; Smith and Cook 1991: 552, 564, 574; Smith 1991a: 145, 151, 158; Smith 1991b: 811; Proctor 1992 b: 238; Cramer 1992: 13-14; Wiles 1997a: 192-194, 197, 200, 202, 209; Wiles 1997b: 1243; Harvey 1998: 67; Smith and Cook 1999: 115; Cramer and Cook 2000: 51; Perrin 2001: 35, 56; Smith et al. 2001: 579, 592, 608, 645; Lewis and McCutchan 2005: 76; Guo and Jin 2005: 70; Abé 2005: 120; Abé 2006: 6; Perrin 2006: 24; Proctor 2006: 8, 13; Richards and Rogers 2006: 36; Pešić and Smit 2007: 50; Goldschmidt 2007: 444-445; GEI 2008: Appendix B-1, F-1, G-1; MMWD 2008: 13; Boyaci and Özkan 2008: 364; Hawkins 2009: 19; Stalingo 2009: 22; Walter et al. 2009: 264, 374; Herbst and Silldorff 2009: 70; Zhang and Guo 2010: 117; Smith 2010: 288; Smith et al. 2010: 492, 522, 535, 550; Herbst et al. 2010: 16; Pernot and Underwood 2010: 43, 46, 49, 52, 56, 59, 62, 65, 68; Pešić et al. 2010: 15; Perrin and Bennett 2011: 37; Guo and Zhang 2011: 46, 48-49; ME Inc. 2011: 18; Richards and Rogers 2011: 45; Smith et al. 2011: 211; Herbst, Medhurst et al. 2011: 29; Herbst, Roberts et al. 2011: 23; Fernández and Reid 2012: 294-295, 297; Cuellar and Underwood 2012: 48, 54, 60, 66, 72; Morimoto 2012: 86; Herbst et al. 2013: 21; Fisher et al. 2015: 74, 83.

Testudacarus * Vitzthum (1942) is cited in Viets (1956), but this source was not located for this study.

Type species.

Testudacarus tripeltatus Walter, 1928

Generic diagnosis.

Members of this genus, unlike Debsacarus , lack projections on the anterior tips of coxae-I and have five-segmented pedipalps (instead of four). Furthermore, with the exception of Testudacarus hyporhynchus , they differ from Debsacarus in having a rounded gnathosoma (rather than elongate) and a wide gnathosomal bay that is uncovered dorsally and ventrally ends posterior to the leg-I insertion.

Distribution.

Same as subfamily.