CUNAXIDAE Thor 1902

Wurlitzer, Wesley Borges, Franklin, Elizabeth, Ferla, Noeli Juarez, da Silva, Guilherme Liberato & dos Santos Rocha, Matheus, 2021, Pseudoscirus gen. nov. of Coleoscirinae (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, with a key to the genera of adult female Coleoscirinae, Journal of Natural History 55 (25 - 26), pp. 1639-1647 : 1640-1641

Family CUNAXIDAE Thor 1902

Subfamily COLEOSCIRINAE Den Heyer 1978 Type genus Coleoscirus Berlese, 1916

Taxonomy. The general characters for the subfamily Coleoscirinae Den Heyer, 1978 are gnathosoma rather large, the five-jointed palps may or may not reach the hypostome’s apex with the tibiotarsus. Chelicera with seta present or absent. All coxae bearing three setae; however,coxa I possessing an additional peg-like seta (pe). The chaetotaxy of telofemora I–IV is

5-5-4-3 simple tactile setae (sts). Idiosomal plates vary from few and poorly developed to many and strongly sclerotised ( Den Heyer 1978, Den Heyer and Castro 2008; Skvarla et al. 2014).