The water mites of Western Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 13 new species
Author
Orginal, Harry Smit
text
Acarologia
2021
2021-10-27
61
4
928
966
journal article
2107-7207
Oxus
(
Flabellifrontipoda
)
striatus
(
Cook, 1986
)
(
Figures 6
A-B)
Material examined
— 1/0/0, Rowell’s Pool, Mount Frankland South NP,
34°49.120′ S
116°35.657′ E
,
34 m
asl,
6 Feb. 2019
; 1/0/0, Boorara Brook at crossing with Boorara Road,
SE of Northcliffe,
34°41.149′ S
116°12.999′ E
,
53 m
asl,
9 Feb. 2019
; 3/0/0, Beedelup Brook, downstream of falls, Beedelup NP,
34°25.107′ S
115°52.071′ E
,
103 m
asl,
10 Feb. 2019
.
Remarks
— The specimens from
Western Australia
differ in a number of characters from the specimens from eastern
Australia
. One of the coxal glandularia is much more distanced from the periphery, and the number of 4-7 swimming setae is lower the ten swimming setae in the populations from eastern
Australia
. There is also much variation between the specimens from
Western Australia
. The palp varies from somewhat stocky to slender (
Figures 6
A-B), the length of IV-leg-6 varies from 96-140 (in the
holotype
96). As all specimens from
Western Australia
have the striations on the expanded coxae, they are, for the time being, assigned
O.
to
striatus
.
Distribution
— Previously reported from
Tasmania
and
Victoria
, and reported here for the first time from
Western Australia
.