Armascirus Den Heyer, 1978

Kalúz, Stanislav & Vrabec, Michal, 2013, Two new species of Armascirus (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from Slovakia, Zootaxa 3734 (2), pp. 141-155 : 142

Genus Armascirus Den Heyer, 1978

The main features separating the genus Armascirus from the other genera of the subfamily Cunaxinae (Den Heyer 1978) are: palpal segment II (basifemur) with a simple dorsal seta; palpal segment III (telofemur) with a spine-like dorsal seta; apophysis present on palpal segment IV (genu); the female palp with a median spine-like apophysis on segment III, which is lacking in the males. Dorsal plates reticulated, the dorsal chaetotaxy includes two pairs of fine setose trichobothria (vi and sce), with the posterior pair (sce) the longest, six pairs of tactile setae in dorsocentral and three pairs of dorso-lateral series. Anal region with a pair of anal setae and two pairs of para-anal setae. Chaetotaxy of telofemora I–IV: 4 sts (simple tactile setae)-4 sts-3 sts, 1 ms (microseta)—3 sts, 1 ms. The proximal sensory complex on dorsal aspect of tarsus I with famulus (fam). The chaetotaxy of telofemora I–IV is 4 sts-4 sts-3 sts, 1 ms—3 sts, 1ms and the chaetotaxy of coxal plates I–IV is 3-1 (or 2 in ♀) or 2 (resp. 1 in ♂)-3-3 sts. More detailed generic features of Armascirus are presented in the paper of Skvarla & Dowling (2011).