Taxon classification Animalia Trombidiformes Torrenticolidae

Debsacarus Habeeb, 1974

Debsacarus Habeeb 1974b: 1; Viets 1987: 222, 724; Zhang and Guo 2010: 117.

Type species.

Debsacarus oribatoides (Habeeb, 1961).

Generic diagnosis.

Debsacarus differ from all other Testudacarinae in having four-segmented pedipalps (instead of five) and projections on the anterio-tips of coxae-I. With the exception of Testudacarus hyporhynchus, Debsacarus differ from all other Testudacarinae in having an elongate gnathosoma and an extremely narrow gnathosomal bay that is covered dorsally and ends anterior to the leg-I insertion ventrally.

Distribution.

Known from only two counties (Los Angeles and Monterey) in California.