New records of the water mite genus Arrenurus Dugès, 1834 from South America (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae), with the description of five new species and one new subspecies
Author
Smit, Harry
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Acarologia
2020
2020-04-29
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journal article
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10.24349/acarologia/20204374
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Arrenurus corniger
Koenike, 1894
Material examined—
Argentina
.
Entre Ríos Province
: 3/6/0, ditch at Brazo Largo, N of Zarate,
33°54’37,21” S
,
58°51’9,24” W
,
6-xi-1999
.
Distribution
— Known from
Brazil
(
Koenike 1894
,
Viets 1936
,
1954a
,
Lundblad 1944
) and
Argentina
(
Rosso de Ferradas 1981b
).
Marshall (1903)
reported this species from North America, but these specimens do not belong
A
to.
corniger
as the dagger-like petiole is lacking, the hump of the cauda is more pointed and the posterior end of cauda has a different shape.