New records of water mites of the family Limnesiidae Thor from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of seven new species
Author
Smit, Harry
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
text
Acarologia
2022
2022-02-07
62
1
193
222
https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4504
journal article
10.24349/yu9v-w0lf
2107-7207
Limnesia
(
Limnesia
)
dentifera
K.O.
Viets, 1980
New records —
South Australia
. 1/0/0, Round Swamp, Bool Lagoon Game Reserve,
12 Oct. 2001
.
Victoria
. 1/2/0, Glenelg River at crossing with Siphon Road, Grampians NP,
29 Sept. 1997
; 1/0/0, Glenelg River at crossing with Red Rock Road, Grampians NP,
29 Sept. 1997
; 6/4/0,
Victoria
Lagoon, SW of Grampians NP,
30 Sept. 1997
.
Remarks
— In the key of
Cook (1986)
L. dentifera
and
L. longigenitalis
Lundblad, 1941
were separated based on characters of the palp. Males, however, are easy to separate by the shape of the genital field. In
L. longigenitalis
the genital field consists of one sclerite, in
L. dentifera
the genital field consists of two genital flaps.
Distribution
— Previously known only from
New South Wales
(
Smit 1992
) and reported here for the first time from
South Australia
and
Victoria
.