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
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journal article
36776
10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1
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1175-5326
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Javalbia magniseta
n. sp.
(
Fig. 26A–C
)
Type
series
.
Holotype
female, Mahua stream at crossing with main road,
Crocker
Range, Borneo,
Malaysia
, 5º
45.225 N
116º
26.085 E
, alt.
752 m
asl,
22-ix-2012
(
RMNH
).
Diagnosis
. Dgl-2 with enlarged hyaline setae.Vgl–4 separated from ventral shield. Acetabula elongated, lying in a triangle.
FIGURES 26A–C
.
Javalbia magniseta
n. sp.
, holotype female. A = dorsal view; B = ventral view; C = palp. Scale bars = 50 Μm.
Description
. Female: Colour yellowish, idiosoma 437 long and 312 wide. Dorsal shield 429 long and 263 wide, with four pairs of glandularia and one pair of setae without glandularia; dgl–2 with very large, hyaline setae (unfortunately lost during mounting). Dorsal furrow with three pairs of small glandularia platelets; only two pairs of slit organs visible. Genital plates posteriorly fused, with three pairs of elongated acetabula, lying in a triangle. Vgl–4 separated from ventral shield. Length/height of P1–P5: 18/16, 36/24, 32/22,
52/18
, 26/8. Length of I-leg- 4–6: 50, 52, 30 (till tip 50). Length of IV-leg-4–6: 70, 78, 58. Legs without swimming setae.
Male
: Unknown.
Etymology
. Named for its large dorsal setae.
Remarks
.
Javalbia kinabaluensis
n. sp
.
, the only species of the genus with similarly elongated acetabula (in the female sex even longer than in
J. magniseta
), has the setae of dgl-2 not enlarged.
Distribution.
Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.