The water mite genus Procorticacarus K. O. Viets in Australasia (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae)
Author
Smit, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2015
3956
1
journal volume
10.11646/zootaxa.3956.1.3
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1175-5326
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Procorticacarus nasutus
n. sp.
(
Figs. 4A–C
)
Type
material.
Holotype
female, Double Barrel Creek, Babinda, Queensland,
Australia
, 17º
20.852 S
145º
53.075 E
,
20-x-2005
(QM).
Diagnosis
. P3 without papillae.
FIGURE 4.
A–C.
Procorticacarus nasutus
n. sp
.
, holotype female: A = dorsum; B = venter; C = palp + capitulum. Scale bars = 50 µm.
Description
. Female: Idiosoma ventrally 454 long, dorsally 413 long and 389 wide. Integument with hair-like papillae. Dorsum with two anteromedial plates, 70 long; postocularia lying in posteromedial corner. Gnathosoma indistinctly separated from venter (partly fused?). Gnathosoma with a long posterior process. First coxae medially widely separated. Fourth coxae with a nose-shaped medial extension; Cxgl-4 lying in the middle of fourth coxae. Genital field 180 wide, with three pairs of acetabula; anterior acetabulum 34 long. Length of P1-5: 20, 76, 121, 146, 54. P2 with a ventral projection with minute papillae; ventral margin of P3 without papillae, medial margins with a wrinkled sculpturation; P4 slender, setal tubercles located far posteriorly, wrinkled sculpturation only in posterior third of segment. Length of I-leg-4–6: 86, 100, 64 (96 till tip of segment). Length of IV-leg-4–6: 135, 138, 112. Legs without swimming setae.
Male: Unknown.
Etymology
. Named for the nose-shaped fourth coxae.
Remarks
. The only other known Australian species with P3 without papillae is
P. angulicoxalis
, but in this species Cxgl–2 is lacking (present in the new species), the fourth coxae is without the nose-shaped medial extension, and P3 and P4 are less slender compared to the new species.