Cunaxa Von Heyden, 1826

Heyer, Jacob den, Ueckermann, Edward A. & Khanjani, Mohammad, 2011, Iranian Cunaxidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea): Part 2. Subfamily Cunaxinae, Journal of Natural History 45 (27 - 28), pp. 1667-1678 : 1668

Type genus Cunaxa Von Heyden, 1826

Scirus Hermann 1804, p.62 ; Voight (in Cuvier) 1836, p.444; Gervais 1841, p.6; Koch 1842, pp.76–77; Kramer 1877, p.254; Berlese 1887, p.34; 1897, p.138; Hull 1918, p.37.

Cunaxa Von Heyden 1826, p.609 ; Thor and Willmann 1941, p.165; Baker and Hoffmann 1948, pp.230–241; Baker and Wharton 1952, p.193; Atyeo 1958, p.173; Meyer and Ryke 1959, pp.370–372; Hughes 1959, p.225; Muma 1960, p.322; 1961, p.19; Heryford 1965, p.310; Shiba 1969, p.106; Smiley 1975, p.238; Hughes 1976, pp.257–258; Chaudhri 1977, p.41; den Heyer 1979a, p.23; 1979b, p.159; 1980, p.6; Chaudhri et al. 1979, p.182; Kuznetsov and Livshits 1979, pp.51–105 Tseng 1980, p.253 –262; Gupta and Ghosh 1980, p.194; Smiley 1992, p.153; Corpuz-Raros and Garcia 1995, p.605; Khaustov and Kunetzov 1998, pp.1332–1341; Sergeyenko 2003, pp.225–229; 2009, pp.1–19; Krantz and Walter 2009, p.237; den Heyer and Sergeyenko 2009, pp.61–68.

Type species. Scirus setirostris Hermann, 1804 by original designation.

Diagnosis

For a detailed genus concept and description see den Heyer (1978b, 1979a,b). den Heyer and Sergeyenko (2009) designated a neotype for the type species and thereby established the species as well as the genus concept of these taxa. This genus can be defined as follows. Idiosoma dorsally covered with one or two shields; females sometimes devoid of shields. Prodorsal shield when present smooth or striate, never reticulate. Palps five-segmented, telofemur, genu and tibiotarsus armed with elongate apophyses or spine-like setae on inner margin. Palp telofemur usually with dorsal seta simple. Tarsi I–IV long, slender, attenuate and with small lobes terminally. The genus Cunaxa comprises 47 species worldwide. Only three Cunaxa species are reported from Iran.