Davacarus Hunter 1970

• Main Author: Walter, David Evans
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Mesostigmata; Davacaridae; Davacarus; Heard Island; Pacific
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4675932; https://zenodo.org/record/4675932

Genus Davacarus Hunter Type species. Davacarus gressetti Hunter, 1970. Diagnosis. With the characteristics of the family and genital opening/ ovipore of female covered by three shields: mesogynial shield well developed, subtriangular to subtrapezoidal in shape; latigynial shields large, indistinct, covering pregenital region and bearing two pairs of setae; pregenital shield absent. Endogynial complex with pair of elongate-oval punctate regions. Dorsal setae acuminate, simple to barbed. Four pairs of large, sessile lateral opisthosomal glands present. Male genital valve subcircular, with or without setae. : Published as part of Walter, David Evans, 2004, From the subantarctic to the subtropics: a revision of the Davacaridae Kethley, 1977 (Acari: Trigynaspida: Mesostigmata) with the description of a new genus and three new species, pp. 2033-2049 in Journal of Natural History 38 (16) on page 2044, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001617733, http://zenodo.org/record/4676074 : {"references": ["HUNTER, P. E., 1970, Acarina: Mesostigmata: free-living mites of South Georgia and Heard Island, Pacific Insects Monograph, 23, 43 - 70."]}