Scutacarus

Belongs within: Pygmephoroidea.

Scutacarus is a genus of scutacarid mites possessing four segments in leg IV.

<==Scutacarus Gros 1845H98
    `--S. (Scutacarus)M63
         |--S. (S.) apodemi Mahunka 1963M63
         |--S. (S.) bucephalus Balogh & Mahunka 1963BM63
         |--S. (S.) ormayi Mahunka 1963M63
         |--S. (S.) spinosus Storkán 1936M63
         `--S. (S.) valentini Balogh & Mahunka 1963BM63

Scutacarus incertae sedis:
  S. acarorum [incl. Disparipes bombi]L86
  S. agypticusL86
  S. australiensis Mahunka 1967H98
  S. baculitarsusWL09
    |--S. b. baculitarsusK09
    `--S. b. agaricusK09
  S. baloghi Mahunka 1967H98
  S. bornemisszai Mahunka 1967H98
  S. cactaeformis Mahunka 1967H98
  S. canberrai Mahunka 1967H98
  S. extrovertus Mahunka 1970SL71
  S. fusiformis Mahunka 1967H98
    |--S. f. fusiformisH98
    `--S. f. subsimilis Mahunka 1967H98
  S. hammerae Mahunka 1967H98
  S. longitarsusZ91
  S. mediotarsusWL09
  S. pannonicus Willmann 1951 [=S. crassisetus pannonicus]H98
  S. quadrangularis (Paoli 1911) [=Variatipes quadrangularis]H98
  S. southcotti Mahunka 1967H98
  S. sydneyensis Mahunka 1967H98
  S. szentivanyii Mahunka 1967H98
  S. talpae [=Disparipes talpae]WL09

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BM63] Balogh, J., & S. Mahunka. 1963. New scutacarids from Hungary (Acari: Tarsonemini). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 9 (1–2): 61–66.

[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.

[K09] Krantz, G. W. 2009. Habits and habitats. In: Krantz, G. W., & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology 3^rd ed. pp. 64–82. Texas Tech University Press.

[L86] Lindquist, E. E. 1986. The world genera of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata): a morphological, phylogenetic, and systematic revision, with a reclassification of family-group taxa in the Heterostigmata. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 118 (S136): 1–517.

[M63] Mahunka, S. 1963. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Milbenfauna (Acari) von Säugetiernestern. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 9 (3–4): 355–372.

[SL71] Spain, A. V., & M. Luxton. 1971. Catalog and bibliography of the Acari of the New Zealand subregion. Pacific Insects Monograph 25: 179–226.

[WL09] 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 3^rd ed. pp. 233–420. Texas Tech University Press.

[Z91] Zaki, A. M. 1991. Potency of solarization and fumigation of some pesticides on predacious soil mites associated with cantaloupe in Egypt. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 719–723. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.