Catalogue of the family Ologamasidae Ryke (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Author
Castilho, Raphael C.
Author
Silva, Edmilson S.
Author
De, Gilberto J.
Author
Halliday, Bruce
text
Zootaxa
2016
4197
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.168445
449eccf3-b63f-437d-945f-85c5e01dadb2
1175-5326
168445
337.
Hydrogamasellus antarcticus
(
Trägårdh, 1907
)
Hydrogamasus antarcticus
Trägårdh, 1907
: 12
.
Gamasellus
(
Hydrogamasellus
)
antarcticus
.—
Hirschmann, 1966b
: 7
;
Watson, 1967
: 41
;
Hunter, 1970
: 61
.
Hydrogamasus antarcticus
.—
Hunter, 1967a
: 35
; 1967b: 31.
Hydrogamasellus antarcticus
.—
Lee, 1970
: 115
;
Lee & Hunter, 1974
: 316
;
Karg, 1976b
: 53
; 1997a: 65;
Karg & Schorlemmer, 2009
: 82
;
Santos
et al
., 2013
: 87
.
Type
depository.
Naturhistorika Riksmuseum
,
Stockholm
,
Sweden
.
Type
locality and habitat.
Paulet
Island
,
Antarctic Peninsula
,
15 January 1902
, in wet moss.
Note.
Specimens reported by Womersley (1937: 17) as
Hydrogamasus antarcticus
were later described as
Parasitiphis aurora
Lee, 1970
: 123
. We have examined a
syntype
female of
H
.
antarcticus
(from the
Stockholm
Museum), as well as specimens of this species from
Macquarie Island
(in
ANIC
)
. In both cases the insemination pore is located on the posterodistal face of coxa III, and opens into a short sclerotised basal section of the spermathecal duct within coxa III. This information has been incorporated into the genus concept for
Hydrogamasellus
. Some of the specimens in Trägårdh's syntype series were misidentified, and actually belong to
Hydrogamasellus racovitzai
(
Trouessart, 1903
)
. This error was noted on the specimen labels by D. C. Lee when he examined these specimens in 1966.