<documentid="7E9A2BEA9BC61DF8F285E8C96B9EE5FF"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5566.3.3"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="14703311"ID-ZooBank="5A41C10B-C902-4583-AB0F-0E843EB700E3"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1737370677233"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir"docDate="2025"docId="03EC878BFFFCB92A80D4FE46369AFAA7"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5566.3.3.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5566 (3)"docSource="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5566.3.3"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Kallimobates inusitatus Smit & Pešić, 2025, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="508"masterDocId="FFD5FFF3FFE7B9318043FFD4352CFFAA"masterDocTitle="New records of hygrobatid water mites from SE Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia Hygrobatidae) with the description of ten new species"masterLastPageNumber="521"masterPageNumber="481"pageNumber="508"updateTime="1737388463001"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="CC255DAC79BD2D2B24D12ECBEDADF5D7">New records of hygrobatid water mites from SE Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia Hygrobatidae) with the description of ten new species</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="100CEA9B56FFCFA566A63B2CA64E6DE3">Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands & Museums Victoria Research Institute, Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="4C454D1EFFFCB92A80D4FE463498FE07"authorityName="Smit & Pešić"authorityYear="2025"box="[151,436,402,429]"class="Arachnida"family="Hygrobatidae"genus="Kallimobates"higherTaxonomySource="GBIF"kingdom="Animalia"order="Trombidiformes"pageId="27"pageNumber="508"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="inusitatus"status="sp. nov.">
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<paragraphid="8BFA369DFFFCB92A8084FD93369DFD2F"blockId="27.[151,1437,511,1293]"pageId="27"pageNumber="508">Diagnosis (Male unknown). Gnathosomal rostrum with a more or less uniform height along its length, denticles present on the ventral side of P2 and P3, P3 without ventral projection.</paragraph>
Description. Female. Dorsal and ventral shields present; dorsal shield 681 long and 644 wide, with three pairs of glandularia and the postocularia; a pair of glandularia lying in the dorsal furrow at the posterior end of the dorsal shield (
) 769 long and 763 wide; gnathosomal bay moderately deep, 188 long. Genital field with three pairs of acetabula, fused with the ventral shield, 266 wide between outer margins of acetabula; gonopore 108 long and 118 wide.
: dorsal length/height: P1, 27/44; P2, 93/57; P3, 140/52; P4, 108/26; P5, 44/14; ventral margin of P2 with a projection, denticles present on this projection and on the ventral side of P3, P-3 ventral margin without a projection, ventral margin P4 with well-developed tubercles in posterior part of the segment. Gnathosoma (
<paragraphid="8BFA369DFFFCB92A8084FBEB3621FBF3"blockId="27.[151,1437,511,1293]"box="[199,781,1087,1113]"pageId="27"pageNumber="508">Etymology. Named for its apparent rare occurrence.</paragraph>
. The latter species can easily be separated from the new species by the shape of palp with P-2 lacking denticles and P-3 with a well-developed ventral projection in posterior half of the segment (see Fig.
<bibRefCitationid="EFD44B6CFFFCB92A81F2FB1B371CFB43"author="Cook D. R."box="[433,560,1231,1257]"pageId="27"pageNumber="508"pagination="1 - 568"refId="ref22356"refString="Cook D. R. (1986) Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 40, 1 - 568."type="journal article"year="1986">Cook 1986</bibRefCitation>
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