Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species
Author
Smit, Harry
Author
Pešić, Vladimir
text
Zootaxa
2014
3876
1
1
71
journal article
36776
10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1
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1175-5326
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Erebaxonopsis kipungitensis
n. sp.
(
Figs. 35A–D
)
Type
series
.
Holotype
male, Kipungit River, Poring Hot Springs, Mt Kinabalu, 6º
0 2.776 N
116º
41.432 E
, alt.
568 m
asl,
15-ix-2012
(
RMNH
).
Diagnosis
. Anterior margins of Cx-I/-II each with a group of teeth; IV-leg-1, IV-leg-3 and IV-leg4 with distoventral extensions.
Description
. Male: Colour yellowish, idiosoma 428 long and 340 wide. Dorsal shield 324 wide, broadly fused anteriorly to ventral shield, with five pairs of glandularia. Lateral eyes reduced. Anterior margins of Cx-I/-II each with a group of teeth. Genital field with four pairs of acetabula, the three anterior in a transverse line, the fourth flanking the posterior gonopore. Genital skeleton 203 long, Length/height of P1-P5: 24/15, 40/30, 20/19, 54/23, 21/ 10; P1 with an posteriorly located dorsal seta, P2 stocky, P4 rather stocky, ventral margin somewhat bulging with one seta. Length of I-leg-4–6: 34, 38, 40. Length of IV-leg-4–6: 32, 35, 30; fourth legs stocky, IV-leg-1, -3 and – 4 with an anteroventral extension, IV-leg-1 with three heavy dorsal setae, IV-leg-3 short, IV-leg-4 widening anteriorly with a large, curved ventral seta, IV-leg-5 widened also anteriorly with 3 heavy anteroventral setae, IVleg-6 not modified. Legs without swimming setae.
Female:
Unknown.
Etymology
. Named after the
type
locality, the Kipungit River.
Remarks
. The new species differs from all described species of the genus in the presence of anteroventral extensions on IV-leg 1 and -5.
Erebaxonopsis nearctica
Cook, 1974
(California)
,
E. morimotoi
Imamura, 1958
(
Japan
, only female known) and
E. amamiensis
Imamura, 1961
(
Japan
, only female known) have IV-leg-3 only with an anteroventral extension.
Distribution.
Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.