The water mite family Aturidae Thor, 1900 from Southeast Asia (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with the description of one new genus and 14 new species
Author
Smit, H.
text
Acarologia
2016
2016-07-22
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/acarologia/20162248
journal article
10.1051/acarologia/20162248
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Javalbia magna
n. sp.
(
Figure 9
)
Material examined —
Holotype
female, Stream crossing road to Phu Goom Khao,
Nam Nao NP
,
Thailand
,
16°38.410N
101°34.886E
, alt.
803 m
a.s.l.
,
16-xi-2007
.
Diagnosis — Relatively large size (L/W 478/365), dgl-1 and postocularia more or less in a line, A2 not fused with dorsal shield, vgl-4 lying free.
Description — Female: Idiosoma yellowish, dorsally 478 long and 365 wide, ventrally 446 long. Dorsal shield with a short posterior extension, and with four pairs of glandularia; postocularia more or less in a line with dgl-1. Excretory pore fused with dorsal shield. A2 not fused with dorsal shield. Three pairs of small glandularia platelets in dorsal furrow. Suture lines of coxae obliterated. Cxgl- 4 halfway between fourth leg sockets and genital field. Genital field with three pairs of acetabula, acetabula 2 lying directly posterior to acetabula 1. Vgl-4 not fused with coxae. Length of P1-5: 24, 40, 38, 60, 34. Length of I-leg-4-6: 60, 60, 56. Length of IV-leg-4-6: 80, 80, 72. Legs without swimming setae. Male: Unknown.
Etymology — Named for its relatively large size.
Remarks — Other
Javalbiopsis
species
with the postocularia lying in a line with dgl-1 are
J. africana
Cook, 1966
,
J. antama
Cook, 1967
,
J. persica
Peši´c, Smit and Saboori, 2012 and
J. borneoensis
Smit and Peši´c, 2014
, but all these species have A2 fused with the dorsal shield.