New records of water mites mainly from Vogelkop, New Guinea (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of one new genus and thirteen new species
Author
Smit, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2013
3716
2
207
235
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3716.2.5
33175374-a1d2-461f-a42f-444dc37cbf44
1175-5326
222540
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Limnesia (Limnesia) baderi
(Imamura, 1983)
Material examined.
0/1/0, stream Wasai, SW of Manokwari, West
Papua
Province, 0°
55.563 S
133° 58.380, alt.
27 m
asl,
12-xi-2011
; 1/0/0, stream Warmarai, S of Manokwari, West
Papua
province, 1°
0 5.987 S
134°
0 5.514 E
, alt.
16 m
asl,
13-xi-2011
; 0/1/0, river at Warkapi, S of Manokwari, West
Papua
province, 1°
0 9.978 S
134°
0 7.028 E
, alt.
101 m
, asl,
13-xi-2011
.
Remarks.
Limnesia baderi
is known from
Papua New Guinea
and
Papua
Province (
Indonesia
), and is reported here for the first time from
Vogelkop
. Very likely a species of hyporheic habitats, considering it’s pale yellow colour and the absence of eyes. Imamura (1983) considered it also an interstitial species.