A checklist of the water mites of Central Asia with description of six new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Kyrgyzstan
Author
Pešić, Vladimir
Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b. b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
Author
Smit, Harry
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
text
Acarologia
2018
2018-01-31
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journal article
8469
10.24349/acarologia/20184236
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2107-7207
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Atractides
(
Atractides
)
sonkulensis
n. sp.
(
Figures 8-9
)
Zoobank:
CC68E207-1755-4B42-BF73-6E2F3F99C84F
Type material —
Holotype
male (
RMNH
),
Kyrgyzstan
, KR32 stream near
Son Kul Lake
,
41°55.480’N
,
75°11.865’E
,
3066 m
asl
.,
16.vii.2013
, leg.
Pešić
&
Smit
, dissected and slide mounted
.
Paratypes
: 10/27/0, same data as
holotype
, 2/1/0, dissected and slide mounted.
Further records —
Kyrgyzstan
, KR31 River near Son Kul Lake,
41°51.549’N
,
75°20.133’E
,
3049 m
asl.,
16.vii.2013
, leg. Pešić & Smit 0/3/0; KR34 Son Kul Lake area, rheohelocrenic spring 1,
41°56.236’N
,
75°12.686’E
,
3093 m
asl.,
16.vii.2013
, Pešić & Smit 0/2/0.
Diagnosis — Coxae with sexual dimorphism (in male coxal field merged to an unique plate, including Vgl-3; in female coxal plates separate); ventral margin of P-2 nearly straight, P-3 with one seta each on medial and lateral surface extending beyond ventral margin of segment; in male S-1/-2 close to each other (separation 9-10 μm).
Description —
General features
— Integument dorsally striated, muscle insertions unsclerotized. Coxae with sexual dimorphism. Excretory pore smooth; Vgl-1 separate from Vgl-2. Palp with weak sexual dimorphism, ventral margin of P-2 nearly straight, forming a right distal angle, not protruding, P-3 with one seta each on medial and lateral surface, P-4 sword seta between ventral setae. I-L-5: S-1 longish and blunt, S-2 pointed and thicker than S-1, I-L-6 curved, basally thickened. Male: Coxae with extended secondary sclerotization, forming a coxal shield, including Vgl-3 (
Figure 8A
); genital plate with extended convex margin of secondary sclerotization, posterior margin indented, acetabula in an obtuse triangle (
Figure 8E
); P-4 thickened, slightly elevated near insertion of proximoventral seta (
Figures 8
C-D). Female. Coxal plates separate (
Figure 9A
); acetabula in a weakly curved line (
Figure 9B
); P-4 more slender (
Figures 9
C-D).
Measurements — Male (
holotype
; in parentheses
paratypes
, n = 2) — Idiosoma L (478- 491), W (350-353); maximum diameter Dgl 21 (22-23); coxal field: L 298 (302-322); Cx-III W 291 (288-311); genital field L/W 94/100 (86-88/92-95), maximum diameter Ac 1-3: 31 (24-27), 28 (22-23), 26 (24-23); ejaculatory complex L (105).
Gnathosoma — palp total L 276 (286); dL/H, dL/H ratio: P-1, 27/25, 1.06 (27/27, 1.0); P-2, 58/42, 1.38 (63/42, 1.48); P-3, 67/34, 1.95 (69/36, 1.92); P-4, 94/22, 4.28 (97/23, 4.2); P-5, 30/12, 2.6 (30/12, 2.5); L ratio P-2/P-4 0.62 (0.65). Gnathosomal base vL 89 (102); chelicera total L 161 (170).
Legs — I-L-5 dL 145 (145), vL 98 (101-103), dL/vL ratio 1.48 (1.4-1.43), maximum H 39 (38-40), dL/maximum H 3.7 (3.7-3.9), S-1 L 70 (70), L/W ratio 9.0 (8.1), S-2 L 63 (63-64), L/W ratio 6.7 (6.2-6.3), distance S-1-2 10 (9-10), L ratio S-1/2 1.1 (1.1); I-L-6 L 105 (106-108), central H 19 (20), L/central H ratio 5.4 (5.2-5.4); L ratio I-L-5/6, 1.38 (1.35-1.37).
Female (
paratype
, n = 1) — Idiosoma L 750, W 570; maximum diameter Dgl 22; coxal field: L 369; Cx-III W 441; Cx-I+II mL 125, lL 242; genital field L/W 159/175, genital plates L 109-114, pregenital sclerite W 79, maximum diameter Ac 1-3: 39, 34, 35.
Gnathosoma — palp total L 359; dL/H, dL/H ratio: P-1, 34/33, 1.04; P-2, 73/50, 1.47; P-3, 98/41, 2.4; P-4, 116/27, 4.35; P-5, 38/14, 2.66; L ratio P-2/P-4 0.63. Gnathosomal base vL
131; chelicera total L 248.
Legs — I-L-5 dL 213, vL 141, dL/vL ratio 1.52, maximum H 50, dL/maximum H 4.3, S-1 L 105, L/W ratio 11.1, S-2 L 75, L/W ratio 6.4, distance S-1-2 27, L ratio S-1/2 1.4; I-L-6 L 150, central H 22, L/central H ratio 6.7; L ratio I-L-5/6, 1.42.