Water mites of the family Aturidae Thor, 1900 from Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with description of two new species
Author
Esen, Yunus
Author
Pešić, Vladimir
Author
Erman, Orhan
text
Zootaxa
2011
2746
25
42
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.204454
87e4c2a8-bd93-4dae-a29a-3d4841f3cee2
1175-5326
204454
Genus
Albaxona
Szalay, 1944
Albaxona lundbladi
Mota
ş
&
Tanasachi, 1947
(
Figs. 2A–E
)
New records.
Bingöl Province, Genç, Kupar stream,
38°44'31"N
40°32'35"E
,
1000 m
asl.,
04.viii.2010
(1/0/0).
Morphology.
Male: Dorsal shield L/W 376/258; ventral shield L/W 394/262; capitular bay L 69; W between most lateral pair of acetabula 105; gonopore W 20; dL and %L (in parentheses): P-1 18 (10.9); P-2 44 (26.7); P-3 26 (15.7); P-4 52 (31.5); P-5 25 (15.1); Legs: dL of L-3-6: 62-68-62; dL of IV-L: 82-56-72-83-95-76; legs without swimming setae.
FIGURE 1A–G
.
Kongsbergia persica
Pešić, 2005
, male: A = idiosoma, dorsal view; B = idiosoma, ventral view; C = palp, medial view; D = palp, lateral view; E = I-L-1-6; F = IV-L-1-6, posteriorly; G = IV-L-4-6, anteriorly. Scale bar = 100 μm.
FIGURE 2A–E.
Albaxona lundbladi
Motaş & Tanasachi, 1947
, male: A = idiosoma, dorsal view; B = idiosoma, ventral view; C = gnathosoma and right palp, lateral view; D = palp, medial view; E = IV-L-1-6. Scale bars = 100 μm.
Remarks.
Pešiċ & Gerecke (2003)
show that in the
German
populations of
Axonopsis lundbladi
Motaş & Tanasachi, 1947
, the male genital plate varies from the completely separated (typical specimens as described in the original description, see:
Motaş
et al
. 1947
) to fused into a ventral shield but having a distinct suture line between the two sclerites. The specimens with the later character state was described by
Schwoerbel (1962)
as
Albaxona gracilis
(syn. to
A. lundbladi
, see
Pešiċ & Gerecke 2003
). The single Turkish male specimen has the genital field fused with the ventral shield but with visible traces of genital field delimitation. In all other important diagnostic features the specimen from
Turkey
agrees with
A. lundbladi
.
Figure 2
A-E show some morphological details of the specimen from Bingol Province.
Distribution.
Central-Southern Europe, British Isles. New for
Turkey
.