Pulaeus Den Heyer

Castro, Tatiane Marie Martins Gomes De & Heyer, Jacob Den, 2009, A revision of the genus Pulaeus Den Heyer, with descriptions of a new genus and four new Brazilian species (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae), Zootaxa 2141, pp. 20-36 : 22

Key to the Brazilian and South African species of Pulaeus Den Heyer

1. Females with propodosomal coxal plates fused medially; median platelet with a seta anteriad to genital opening...... ........................................................................................................................................... P. pectinatus ( Ewing, 1909)

- Females with propodosomal coxal plates not fused medially; without median platelet anteriad to genital opening... 2

2. Genu I with 4 solenidia plus duplex setae ........................................................................ P. quadrisolenidius sp. nov.

- Genu I with 2 or 3 solenidia and with or without duplex setae .................................................................................... 3

3. Genu I with 2 solenidia and with duplex setae .......................................................... P. glebulentus Den Heyer, 1980 a

- Genu I with 3 solenidia and without duplex setae........................................................................................................4

4. Dorsal shield strongly punctated.................................................................................................. P. myrtaceus sp. nov.

- Dorsal shield slightly punctated................................................................................... P. franciscae Den Heyer, 1981 b