taxonID	type	description	language	source
4C3187B7FF9E3937FE16FAAB871BF9F8.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Caeculus echinipes Dufour, 1832 by monotypy.	en	Porta K, Andrés O., MichalikK, Peter, Ramírez K, Martín J. (2022): Caeculus fedrae sp. nov., a new fossil species of rake-legged mite (Acari: Caeculidae) from Baltic amber. Acarologia 62 (4): 1154-1170
4C3187B7FF9E3937FE16FAAB871BF9F8.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis — (based on Coineau 1974) – Caeculus corresponds to caeculids with dorsal plates without intensive neotrichy, ω solenidium dorsally located, famulus ε dorsal and hidden, famulus κ ″ recessive, hidden ; eupathidia with the typical shape of ′ baguette de tambour′ (stick drum) of most of the genera of the family, legs with lateral claws equally sized in each tarsus, with trichobothria on all tarsi and tridactyly evident.	en	Porta K, Andrés O., MichalikK, Peter, Ramírez K, Martín J. (2022): Caeculus fedrae sp. nov., a new fossil species of rake-legged mite (Acari: Caeculidae) from Baltic amber. Acarologia 62 (4): 1154-1170
4C3187B7FF9E3937FE16FAAB871BF9F8.taxon	discussion	Remark — Except for the species C. echinipes, which has been studied in detail by Y. Coineau in his monograph on the family (1974), and two species recently described (Bernard et al. 2020 ; Porta and Vazquez 2020), all the other species of the genus need to be redescribed.	en	Porta K, Andrés O., MichalikK, Peter, Ramírez K, Martín J. (2022): Caeculus fedrae sp. nov., a new fossil species of rake-legged mite (Acari: Caeculidae) from Baltic amber. Acarologia 62 (4): 1154-1170
