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.