Halixodes Brucker & Trouessart, 1899

Bartsch, Ilse, 2015, The genital area of Halacaridae (Acari), life stages and development of morphological characters and implication on the classification, Zootaxa 3919 (2), pp. 201-259 : 219-220

Halixodes Brucker & Trouessart, 1899

(Figs 50–52)

Type species. Agaue chitonis Brucker, 1897 .

Adults. AE of adults without epimeral pores. Both female and male with GA. Female GA with up to 12–13 pairs of pgs; and zero to one sgs on each genital sclerite ( Bartsch 1986b: fig. 5). Shape and number of genital spines not known. Male with more than 100 slender pgs very densely packed on a slightly raised area around GO (Fig. 50). Genital sclerites with five pairs of very short sgs, these stump-like and apically slightly spinose (Fig. 51). Acetabula internal, posterior-most pair tube-shaped, two anterior pairs cupuliform (Fig. 52).

Juveniles. With deuto- and protonymphal stage, no records of larva published but this instar certainly present. In both nymphs GP small, separated from AP. Deutonymphal GP with two pairs of gac and single pair of pgs; sgs lacking ( Bartsch 1986b: fig. 15). Protonymphal GP very small, with one pair of gac; pgs and sgs lacking (Viets 1959).

Remarks. Three species are described, all three are from New Zealand ( Bartsch 2009a).