Belongs within: Halacaridae.
Agaue is a genus of halacarid mites with the base of the rostrum covered by a lamella (Luxton 1990).
Characters (Luxton 1990): More than ten pairs of perigenital setae; rostrum lacking barbs but with a lamella covering its base dorsally; chelicerae toothed but lacking dorsal rasps; palps four-segmented, penultimate segment with a spiniform seta; palps lacking conspicuous lamellae; legs with lamellae; tibia I lacking spiniform setae, genu I shorter than either femur I or tibia I.
<==Agaue Lohmann 1889B05 [incl. Polymela Lohmann 1901N47]
|--*A. parva (Chilton 1883)N47 [=Halacarus parvusQH01]
|--A. aculeata Trouessart 1896T96
|--A. chevreuxi (Trouessart 1889) [=Leptopsalis chevreuxi, Halacarus chevreuxi]H98
|--A. drygalskii (Lohmann 1907)SL71
|--A. hamiltoni Womersley 1937N47
|--A. hispida Lohmann 1893 [=Halacarus hispidus]H98
|--A. insignata Bartsch 1979L90
|--A. nationalis (Lohmann 1893) [=Halacarus nationalis, H. (Polymela) nationalis, Leptospathis nationalis]N47
|--A. panopae Lohmann 1893 (see below for synonymy)H98
|--A. parva (Chilton 1883)SL71
|--A. parvirostrisT96
|--A. uncinata Bartsch 1990B05
`--A. verrucosa Bartsch 1982B05
Agaue panopae Lohmann 1893 [=Halacarus panopae; incl. A. panopae var. setifera Lohmann 1893, A. panopae var. squamifera Lohmann 1893, Halacarus panopae var. squamifera]H98
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B05] Bartsch, I. 2005. Halacaridae from the depths of western Antarctica (Arachnida, Acari). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85 (1): 31–41.
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[L90] Luxton, M. 1990. The marine littoral mites of the New Zealand region. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 20 (4): 367–418.
[N47] Newell, I. M. 1947. A systematic and ecological study of the Halacaridae of eastern North America. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 10 (3): 1–232.
[QH01] Qin, T.-K., & R. C. Henderson. 2001. Taxonomy of New Zealand Prostigmata: past, present and future. In: Halliday, R. B., D. E. Walter, H. C. Proctor, R. A. Norton & M. J. Colloff (eds) Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress pp. 35–39. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
[SL71] Spain, A. V., & M. Luxton. 1971. Catalog and bibliography of the Acari of the New Zealand subregion. Pacific Insects Monograph 25: 179–226.
[T96] Trouessart, E. 1896. Resultats scientifiques de la campagne du “Caudan” dans le Golfe de Gascogne: Halacariens. Annales de l’Universite de Lyon 26: 325–353, pls 9–11.