Armascirus Den Heyer, 1978

Kalúz, Stanislav & Vrabec, Michal, 2013, Two new species of Armascirus (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from Slovakia, Zootaxa 3734 (2), pp. 141-155 : 142

Genus Armascirus Den Heyer, 1978

The main features separating the genus Armascirus from the other genera of the subfamily Cunaxinae (Den Heyer 1978) are: palpal segment II (basifemur) with a simple dorsal seta; palpal segment III (telofemur) with a spine-like dorsal seta; apophysis present on palpal segment IV (genu); the female palp with a median spine-like apophysis on segment III, which is lacking in the males. Dorsal plates reticulated, the dorsal chaetotaxy includes two pairs of fine setose trichobothria ( vi and sce), with the posterior pair ( sce) the longest, six pairs of tactile setae in dorsocentral and three pairs of dorso-lateral series. Anal region with a pair of anal setae and two pairs of para-anal setae. Chaetotaxy of telofemora I–IV: 4 sts (simple tactile setae)-4 sts-3 sts, 1 ms (microseta)—3 sts, 1 ms. The proximal sensory complex on dorsal aspect of tarsus I with famulus (fam). The chaetotaxy of telofemora I–IV is 4 sts-4 sts-3 sts, 1 ms—3 sts, 1ms and the chaetotaxy of coxal plates I–IV is 3-1 (or 2 in ♀) or 2 (resp. 1 in ♂)-3-3 sts. More detailed generic features of Armascirus are presented in the paper of Skvarla & Dowling (2011).