6.21. Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942 * Opilioacarus (Neocarus) texanus Vázquez & Klompen 2002: 318, figs. 1N, Q–V, 2H, 3C, 3F, 4D, 5B, 7D, 8D, 10F, 11D (redescription, new diagnosis) Neocarus arizonicus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 128–129, no figs.; Hammen 1966: 4 (junior synonym). Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 127–128, plate I, figs. 1–9, plate II, figs. 10–20 (original description); Hammen 1966: 5, figs 1–21 (redescription without checking types); Vázquez & Klompen 2015: 544–545, figs. 1C, 3C, 6C, 7C (redescription, new distribution) Holotype: No information about the life stage, USA. Whereabouts unknown; according to Chamberlin & Mulaik (1942), types deposited in University of Utah, but the material was sent to the American Museum of Natural History many decades ago (Christy Bill, pers. comm.) and then moved to Cornell University (Ofelia Delgado, pers. comm.) but not found. The material is assumed to be lost. Distribution: Texas, Arizona (USA); Guerrero (Mexico). Etymology: Named after the state in which the original material was collected.

Published as part of Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), pp. 332-356 in Zootaxa 4895 (3) on page 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4326711