Water mites of the family Hygrobatidae Koch from southern Africa (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
Author
Smit, Harry
text
Journal of Natural History
2005
2005-12-23
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930500256284
journal article
10.1080/00222930500256284
1464-5262
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Hygrobates (Hygrobates) sanguineus
K.
Viets, 1956
(
Figure 18
)
Material examined
Holotype
: male,
Great Berg River
,
Western Cape Province
,
South Africa
,
11 January 1953
, leg.
Harrison
(slide 7788,
SMF
)
.
Other
material:
South Africa
,
Western Cape Province
:
five males
, seven nymphs,
Wolwekloof River
at
Tweede Tol
,
Limietberg NR
, alt.
285 m
a.s.l.
, 33
°
34.115
9
S, 19
°
08.255
9
E,
3 November 2004
.
Description
Male.
Idiosoma 648–778 long and 421–599 wide. Shape of idiosoma variable, some specimens elongated with tapering posterior idiosoma part. In older males all glandularia surrounded by red-coloured secondary sclerotization. Close to anterior margin of genital field a pair of glandularia, fused with secondary sclerotization in older males, separated in a teneral male. I-leg-6 with one heavy, blunt seta.
Female.
Unknown.
Remarks
K.
Viets (1956)
based his description on one teneral and one fully sclerotized male. In his description, he did not mention the occurrence of a pair of glandularia close to or fused with the anterior margin of the genital field. After examination of the
holotype
, it can be concluded that K. Viets overlooked this pair of glandularia.