Biscirus Thor, 1913

Paktinat-Saeej, Saeed, Bagheri, Mohammad, Saboori, Alireza & Ahaniazad, Mansoureh, 2015, Two new Bdellidae (Trombidiformes: Bdelloidea) from Iran and the status of Neobiscirus Gomelauri, 1963, Zootaxa 4013 (4), pp. 519-530 : 520

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6094026

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scientific name

Biscirus Thor, 1913
status

 

Biscirus Thor, 1913

Type species: Bdella silvaticus Kramer, 1881 [original designation]

Diagnosis. Hypostome with two pairs of prominent ventral setae; with or without median prodorsal eye; genital tracheae well-developed; chelicerae elongated, movable chela reduced and needle-like; sometimes with unpaired seta between coxae IV; tibiae I, IV and tarsi III, IV with trichobothria; external vertical setae (lps) absent; palp tibiotarsus cylindrical and elongate.

Kramer, P. (1881) Ueben Milben; 4. Ueber Scirus taurus n. spec. Zeitschrift fur die gesammten Naturwissenschaft, 54, 418 - 452.

Thor, S. (1913) Biscirus genus novum. Eine neue Bdelliden Gattung und zwei neue Untergattugen. Zoologischen Anzeiger, 42, 28 - 30.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Prostigmata

Family

Bdellidae