Belongs within: Hygrobatidae.
Corticacarus is a genus of hygrobatid water mites with relatively laterally placed legs IV with the glands on coxae IV placed centrally, posterior to the suture between coxae III and IV, and with a ventral projection on the palpfemur.
<==Corticacarus Lundblad 1936RFF05 [incl. Notorheobates Imamura 1984H98]
|--C. (Corticacarus)RFF05
| |--C. (C.) coarctipalpis Lundblad 1942RFF05
| |--C. (C.) coeruleus Lundblad 1942RFF05
| |--C. (C.) columbianus Lundblad 1941RFF05
| |--C. (C.) crassipalpis Lundblad 1942RFF05
| |--C. (C.) davecooki (Cook 1988)RFF05
| |--C. (C.) dentipalpis Lundblad 1936RFF05
| | |--C. d. dentipalpisRFF05
| | `--C. d. schadei Lundblad 1942RFF05
| |--C. (C.) edentulus Lundblad 1942RFF05
| |--C. (C.) exilis Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (C.) jemobus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (C.) malleifer Lundblad 1936RFF05
| | |--C. m. malleiferRFF05
| | `--C. m. affinis Lundblad 1942RFF05
| |--C. (C.) patagonicus Besch 1964RFF05
| |--C. (C.) placophorus Schwoerbel 1986RFF05
| |--C. (C.) pravanus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (C.) rimorus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (C.) rostratus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (C.) sovus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (C.) stukabus Cook 1988RFF05
| `--C. (C.) umadus Cook 1988RFF05
|--C. (Corticacarellus Lundblad 1937)RFF05
| |--C. (C.) acutidens (Lundblad 1938)RFF05
| |--C. (C.) labialis Lundblad 1936RFF05
| |--C. (C.) latidens (Viets 1953)RFF05
| `--C. (C.) vietsi Lundblad 1953RFF05
|--C. (Corticacarides Lundblad 1941)RFF05
| |--C. (C.) nilsoni Besch 1964RFF05
| `--C. (C.) plaumanni Lundblad 1941RFF05
|--C. (Lundbladacarus Motas & Tanasachi 1960)RFF05
| |--C. (L.) anchistus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (L.) angelescui Motas & Tanasachi 1960RFF05
| |--C. (L.) argentinensis Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (L.) brundini Besch 1964RFF05
| |--C. (L.) chilensis Viets 1967RFF05
| |--C. (L.) divisus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (L.) icotus Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (L.) penai Cook 1988RFF05
| |--C. (L.) schusteri Viets 1977RFF05
| `--C. (L.) xystus Besch 1964RFF05
|--C. (Paracorticacarus Lundblad 1953)RFF05
| |--C. (P.) brassanus Cook 1980RFF05
| |--C. (P.) brogavus Cook 1980RFF05
| |--C. (P.) coldomus Cook 1980RFF05
| |--C. (P.) copinae Rosso de Ferradás 1991RFF05
| |--C. (P.) curvirostris Lundblad 1953RFF05
| |--C. (P.) longirostris Lundblad 1953RFF05
| |--C. (P.) minutissimus (Lundblad 1953)RFF05
| |--C. (P.) motasi Lundblad 1953RFF05
| |--C. (P.) multiscutus Lundblad 1953RFF05
| | |--C. m. multiscutusRFF05
| | |--C. m. divisus Lundblad 1953RFF05
| | `--C. m. reductus Lundblad 1953RFF05
| |--C. (P.) noodti Besch 1964RFF05
| |--C. (P.) schwoerbeli Cook 1980RFF05
| |--C. (P.) setipes Lundblad 1953RFF05
| |--C. (P.) smithi Cook 1980RFF05
| |--C. (P.) suchezae Fernández & Rosso de Ferradás 2001RFF05
| `--C. (P.) testudo Lundblad 1953RFF05
| |--C. t. testudoRFF05
| `--C. t. aberratus Lundblad 1953RFF05
|--C. (Polycorticacarellus Lundblad 1953)RFF05
| |--C. (P.) multiporus Lundblad 1953RFF05
| `--C. (P.) pereirai Cook 1980RFF05
`--C. (Tetracorticacarellus Lundblad 1941)RFF05
`--C. (T.) scutatus Lundblad 1941RFF05
Corticacarus incertae sedis:
C. aligenitalis Cook 1986H98
C. aloonus Cook 1986H98
C. angulicoxalis Viets 1978H98
C. australicus Viets 1978H98
C. cooki (Imamura 1984) [=Notorheobates cooki]H98
C. cramerae Cook 1986H98
C. gennadus Cook 1986H98
C. gracilipalpis Viets 1978H98
C. hirsutus Viets 1978H98
C. incurvatus Viets 1953RFF05
C. longipalpis Cook 1986H98
C. nabidus Cook 1986H98
C. pachydermis Cook 1986H98
C. parvus Cook 1986H98
C. prasadi Cook 1986H98
C. tadilopus Cook 1986H98
C. tasmanicus Cook 1986H98
C. togalus Cook 1986H98
C. victorianus Viets 1978 [=C. victoriensis (l. c.)]H98
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[RFF05] Rosso de Ferradás, B., & H. R. Fernández. 2005. Elenco y biogeografía de los ácaros acuáticos (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) de Sudamérica. Graellsia 61 (2): 181–224.