Vagabundia, Valdecasas, Antonio G., 2008

Valdecasas, Antonio G., 2008, Confocal microscopy applied to water mite taxonomy with the description of a new genus of Axonopsinae (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) from Central America, Zootaxa 1820, pp. 41-48 : 43

Vagabundia n. gen.

Diagnosis. With the characteristics of the family and subfamily as described by Cook (1974). Vagabundia n. gen. belongs to the ‘ Axonopsella -like’ group of water mites (Cook, op.cit). Body flattened. Dorsal and ventral shields present, not fused. Capitulum separated from the coxae. Coxae extending far beyond anterior end of body. Tips of first pair of coxae pointed. Suture line between first and second coxae meeting and continuing posteriorly as a long median suture line between the other coxae. Fourth coxae with marked posterior suture and with rounded projection that partially covers the insertion of the IV-Leg. Other coxae suture lines incomplete. A ridge present on each side extending anterolaterally and posterolaterally from processes in the IVcoxae. Genital field obliterated. Gonopore opening small and located near middle of body. Four pair of genital acetabula. Gonopore subterminal. Two pairs of small glandularia placed close together laterally near posterior end of fourth coxae. Capitulum with a long pointed rostrum. Setae on capitulum small. Sexual dimorphism in distal segments and claw of II-Leg, and third and fourth segments of IV-Leg male.