New records of the water mite family Arrenuridae from the Afrotropical region, with the description of 11 new species and two new subspecies (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
Author
Smit, H.
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-02-09
3187
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31
journal article
1175-5326
Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) insecutus
K.
Viets, 1916
(
Fig. 35
)
Material examined.
GHANA
. 1/0/0,
Inlet
Volta
River
at
Kpong
,
6° 09.183N
0° 03.709 W
, alt
25 m
asl
,
10-iii- 2011
.
Remarks.
The specimen from
Ghana
has a longer posterior cleft than the specimens from
Cameroon
(K.
Viets 1916
) and
Liberia
(
Cook 1966
). However, as it is similar in all aspects, I assigned it to that species. More material is needed to elucidate the variability of
A. insecutus
. The male reported by
Lundblad (1949)
has a long posterior medial cleft, but its idiosoma shape is different, without posterolateral corners of the cauda.