Pulaeus Den Heyer, 1979

Heyer, Jacob den, Ueckermann, Edward A. & Khanjani, Mohammad, 2013, Iranian Cunaxidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea). Part III. Subfamily Cunaxoidinae, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 47 (31 - 32), pp. 2049-2070 : 2056

Genus Pulaeus Den Heyer, 1979

Eupalus Ewing, 1909: 402 ; Berlese, 1916: 293; Thor and Willmann, 1941: 183.

Cunaxoides Baker and Hoffmann, 1948: 245–246 ; Shiba, 1978: 123–126.

Pulaeus Den Heyer, 1979: 18–33 ; El-Bishlawi and Raka, 1983: 373–375; Bu and Li, 1991: 70–72; Barilo, 1991: 132–134.

Neocunaxoides Chaudhri et al., 1979: 176–177 ; Corpuz-Raros, 1996a: 133–135; Corpuz-Raros, 1996b: 125–129, 131–135; Chaudhri, 1977: 50.

Type species Eupalus pectinatus Ewing, 1909 .

The genus Pulaeus was erected by Den Heyer (1979). It has since been revised and divided by Castro and Den Heyer (2009); thereby erecting the genus Lupaeus . The latter authors provided information on species belonging to these genera; also an historical review and a literature review are provided in their papers.

Chaudhri (1977) was the first to describe a species with considerable longer chelicerae, palps and hypostome as usually occurring in this genus, namely Neocunaxoides krama (= Pulaeus sensu Castro and Den Heyer ). A further two descriptions followed: Pulaeus longignathos Bu and Li, 1987 and Pulaeus payatapalpus Corpuz-Raros,1996 . Sergeyenko (2011) synonymizes both Pulaeus longignathos Bu and Li,1987 and Pulaeus chongqingensis Bu and Li, 1987 as they are, respectively, male and female of Pulaeus krama ( Chaudhri, 1977) ; Sergeyenko (2011) comprehensively redescribed this species from Crimean material. The Iranian male has the dimensions and leg chaetotaxy as provided below.