Water mites from spring- and ground-water habitats in the Sultanate of Oman
Author
Gerecke, Reinhard
text
Journal of Natural History
2004
2010-05-19
38
22
2833
2849
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930310001647451
journal article
10.1080/00222930310001647451
1464-5262
4675432
Limnesia (Tetralimnesia)
sp.
Material examined.
OMAN
96-53.
Halban
, open well (keyhole shaped, 4×
2 m
), diesel pump, water surface at
4 m
, water column
12.5 m
; UTM 0605256/2607586 (23‡34'31̎N, 58‡01'53̎E), altitude
50 m
, 29.2‡C, 2.39 mS cm
21
,
28 March 1996
, 5””, two of them dissected and mounted in Hoyer’s fluid, three in Euparal
.
Remarks.
Various (sub)species have been described in this subgenus from Africa and Asia. In several cases, the significance of characters used for taxonomic separation is unclear, and in absence of the male a classification to species level is impossible.