Belongs within: Neohydrachnidia.
The Hungarohydracaridae are a family of strongly armoured freshwater mites found in hyporheic habitats. Hungarohydracarids are mostly Holarctic in distribution.
Characters (from Walter et al. 2009): Dorsal and ventral shields present; palpi uncate with palpfemur bearing two medioventral setae or patch of medial setae; genital acetabula numerous, lying on acetabular plates flanking gonopore in females, confined to gonopore in males.
<==Hungarohydracaridae |--Cubanohydracarus Orghidan & Gruia 1980 [Cubanohydracarinae]S86 | `--C. elegans Orghidan & Gruia 1980S86 |--Balcanohydracarus Motas & Tanasachi 1948 [Balcanohydracarinae]S86 | |--B. alveolatus Motas & Tanasachi 1948S86 | `--B. corsicus Angelier 1951S86 `--HungarohydracarinaeS86 |--Hungarohydracarus Szalay 1943S86 | |--H. indicus Cook 1967S86 | |--H. subterraneus Szalay 1943S86 | | |--H. s. subterraneusS86 | | |--H. s. italicus Schwoerbel 1961S86 | | `--H. s. multiporus Angelier 1949S86 | `--H. szalayi Cook 1967S86 `--Bharatohydracarus Cook 1967S86 |--B. elongatus Cook 1967S86 |--B. imamurai Cook 1967S86 |--B. japonicus (Imamura 1957) [=Balcanohydracarus japonicus; incl. Ba. latus Imamura 1959]S86 |--B. orientalis Cook 1967S86 |--B. phreaticus Cook 1967S86 |--B. schwoerbeli Cook 1967S86 `--B. similis Cook 1967S86
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[S86] Schwoerbel, J. 1986. Acari: “Hydrachnellae”. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 652–696. E. J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys: Leiden.
Walter, D. E., E. E. Lindquist, I. M. Smith, D. R. Cook & G. W. Krantz. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3rd ed. pp. 233–420. Texas Tech University Press.