New records of water mites from Chile (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of three new species
Author
Smit, Harry
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
text
Acarologia
2021
2021-04-08
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http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20214430
journal article
10.24349/acarologia/20214430
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Hygrobatella coriacea quiponensis
Cook, 1980
(
Figure 3
AB)
New record. 2/13/5, Estero del Aparejo o Morado, upstream of Embalse de Yeso, prov.
Cordillera
,
33°37.448
′
S
70°01.491
′
W
,
2580 m
a.s.l.,
3 Dec. 2018
.
Description. Male: Integument papillate, lineated; platelets colour red. Idiosoma dorsally 1186 (1266) long and 1025 (1164) wide, ventrally 1196 (1284) long. Dorsum in most aspects as in female, but postocularia separate from the large pairs of platelets, the latter 227 long. Moreover, the illustrated male has some irregularities, i.e., in one of the small glandularia platelets the glandularium is lacking and there is one unpaired rounded platelet (
Figure 3A
). Venter as in female, apart from (red coloured) genital field. The latter is 235 long and 243 wide; gonopore 86 long. Genital field with numerous setae, posterior pair of acetabula larger than the two anterior pairs (
Figure 3B
). Length of P15: 70, 179, 170, 243, 84; palp as in female. Length of Ileg46: 368, 356, 251. Length of IVleg46: 648, 652, 389. Legs without swimming setae.
Female: Idiosoma dorsally 9251628 long and 7701475 wide, ventrally 10051648 long.
Remarks. Previously known from the
holotype
female only. Therefore, some measurements of the female and a description of the male are given above.
Distribution.
Argentina
,
Chile
(this study).