Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species
Author
Smit, Harry
Author
Pešić, Vladimir
text
Zootaxa
2014
3876
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journal article
36776
10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1
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1175-5326
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Ljania obliterata
n. sp.
(
Figs. 37A–C
)
FIGURES 37A–C
.
Ljania obliterata
n. sp.
, holotype female. A = dorsal view; B = ventral view; C = palp. Scale bars = 50 Μm.
Type
series
.
Holotype
female, Kemantis stream, Sayap, Mt Kinabalu, Borneo,
Malaysia
, 6º
0 9.841 N
116º
33.936 E
, alt.
928 m
asl,
16-ix-2012
(
RMNH
).
Diagnosis
. A small species. Suture lines of coxae obliterated. Posterior extension of fourth coxae relatively long.
Description
. Female: Colour pale yellow, idiosoma subrectangular in shape, membranous integument papillate with a reticulate pattern, 397 long and 286 wide. Dorsal shield 382 long and 251 wide, with a reticulated pattern; slightly indented anterior to the middle, on the level of the only glandulare located in the dorsal furrow with three pairs of glandularia, a pair of postocularia and two pairs of setae without glandularia. Transverse suture lines Cx-I/II, -II/III and III/IV laterally and medially obliterated only visible as short bars. Cx-IV with a posterolateral extension (length 46) embracing a glandularium. Genital field 40 long and 42 wide. Length/height of P1–P5: 22/14, 30/24, 28/20,
44/18
, 26/10. Length of I-leg-4–6: 60, 64, 66. Length of IV-leg-4–6: 70, 80, 58.
Male
: Unknown.
Etymology
. Named for the obliterated suture lines of the coxae.
Remarks
. Coxal suture lines Cx-I/II, Cx-II/III and Cx-III/IV obliterated to such a degree are not found in any of the known
Ljania
species.
Distribution.
Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.