New records of notoaturine water mites from New Zealand, with the description of five new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Notoaturinae)
Author
K, Harry Smit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. & Museums Victoria Research Institute, Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, VIC 3001
Author
PešićK, Vladimir
Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b. b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Acarologia
2024
2024-04-19
64
2
499
524
http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/ncjl-r16p
journal article
10.24349/ncjl-r16p
2107-7207
11449345
506BF0B4-DE41-41E4-ADED-4736B5FC0543
Genus
Tryssaturus
Hopkins, 1967
Diagnosis
— Smit 2020, p. 413.
A genus with one species known from
New Zealand
. A second species is described below.
Remarks
— Diagnosing genus
Tryssaturus,
Cook (1983)
and later Smit (2020) stated that dorsal sclerites have a reticulate pattern, a character that is missing in the new species described in this paper. Moreover, the abovementioned authors stated that the female IV-leg-3
is with a distal extension with a short peg-like seta. In the female specimen collected in Caution
Creek, neither the distal extension nor the peg-like seta on IV-leg-2 are present, while the distal extension on IV-leg-2 is weakly developed. These differences induced us to give a revised diagnosis of this genus.
Revised diagnosis
(after Smit 2020; modified) — Dorsum with an unpaired anteromedial and a posteromedial plate with two pairs of glandularia. Two pairs of laterodorsal platelets,
the anterolateral with one pair of glandularia, the posterolateral without glandularia. A pair of free glandularia present between the laterodorsal platelets and the posteromedial plate. Male without a distinct cauda. Coxae confined to anterior half of idiosoma. Posterior margins of
Cx-IV placed at right angles to midline; glandularia of Cxgl-4 well distanced from suture line Cx-III/IV. P2 with a few ventral denticles, P4 with mediodistal thickened seta. Legs not laterally compressed, without swimming setae. Male IV-leg modified: IV-leg-1 relatively long with numerous setae, IV-leg-2 with a distal extension, IV-leg with a large distal extension with a peg-like seta.