New records of water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from Thailand, Malaysia and Sulawesi (Indonesia), with the description of four new species
Author
Pesic, Vladimir
Author
Smit, Harry
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Zootaxa
2009
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190536
d7ff8abd-bb96-4ea4-b61a-66aa70982a9b
1175-5326
190536
Atractides
cf.
propatulus
(
K. Viets, 1935
)
(
Figs. 5A–D
)
Material.
INDONESIA
, Sulawesi Utara: S. Tumokang, at park headquarters, Dumoga-Bone NP,
9.iv.1991
leg. Smit, 0/2/0 (0/1/0 mounted); S. Tumokang, near Matayangan, Dumoga-Bone NP,
9.iv.1991
leg. Smit, 0/1/0; S. Uuwan, near Uuwan,
9.iv.1991
leg. Smit, 0/1/0; S. Pusian, between Kotamobagu and Imandi,
21.iv.1991
leg. Smit, 0/3/0.
Morphology.
General features. Integument dorsally striated. Muscle attachment plates unsclerotized. Genital field: Ac in triangular arrangement; excretory pore smooth; Vgl-1: separate to Vgl-2. Palp: weak sexual dimorphism; P-2 ventral margin straight, sword seta of P-4 between ventral hair insertions. I-Leg: setae S-1 and -2 with narrow interspace, S-1 slender, with truncate tip, S-2 slightly thicker, bluntly pointed; I-Leg-6 curved, basally slightly thickened, from the centre to the claw furrow with parallel ventral and dorsal margins.
Female (from S. Tumokang, at park headquarters). Idiosoma L/W 662/575. Coxal field (
Fig. 5A
): L 306, Cx/3 W 422, Cx-1+2 mL 117, Cx-1+2 lL 231. Palp (
Fig. 5D
): total L 322, dL and %L (in parentheses): P-1 30 (9.3), P-2 67 (20.8), P-3 92 (28.6), P-4 96 (29.8), P-5 37 (11.5); L P-2/P-4 0.7. Genital field (
Fig. 5B
): L/W 134/136, genital plate L 97-102, L Ac-1-3: 31-30-32; egg (n=2) maximum diameter 100-102.
I-Leg (
Fig. 5C
): I-Leg-5 dL 189, vL 136, dL/vL 1.39, HB 53, dL/HB 3.6, S-1 L 90, L/
W 11.8
, S-2 L 77, L/
W 7.9
, distance of sword setae at I-Leg-5 18, L S-1/2 1.16; I-Leg-6 L 131, HB 23, L/HB 5.8; L I-Leg-5/6 1.44.
Remarks
. The specimens from Sulawesi fit the description given by
K. Viets (1935)
for
Atractides propatulus
, a species described from South Sumatra,
Indonesia
. However, our specimens differ in a larger idiosoma, I-Leg-5/6 and palp dimensions. Due to the fact that we do not have male specimens, this is only a tentative assignment. The variability of further specimens needs to be examined to clarify the taxonomy.
Distribution
.
Indonesia
.