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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF8032C9FF0B1B19FF7E" bold="true" box="[151,276,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Axonopsis</emphasis>
(
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(
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A-E)
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF8032C9FE9B1B89FEEE" bold="true" box="[151,388,263,289]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Material examined</emphasis>
.
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: male, dissected and slide-mounted in Hoyer's fluid.
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, Kerala State, River
<taxonomicName id="9F991B80FFC9FF8032C9FEAD1AE3FE84" box="[151,238,305,331]" class="Arachnida" family="Axonopsidae" genus="Axonopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="periyar" status="sp. nov.">Periyar</taxonomicName>
near Kalady village,
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,
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,
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asl., hyporheic zone (temperature 22 o C; pH 8.2),
<date id="2C2746C3FFC9FF80328AFEC41B7EFEBD" box="[212,371,344,370]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30" value="2008-05-13">13 May 2008</date>
.
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BFEE21B4AFE57" bold="true" box="[197,327,382,408]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
(only based on male, female unknown). Dorsal shield extending posterior to ventral shield; posterolateral margins of ventral shield with a small pointed projection on each side; two pairs of glandularia lying between the genital field and insertions of the fourth legs; middle of ventral side of P-4 expanded.
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BFE6E1B52FDC3" bold="true" box="[197,351,498,524]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Description.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF803336FE6F1BA8FDC3" box="[360,421,499,524]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Male</emphasis>
: dorsal and ventral shields present, these slightly fused at anterior end; dorsal shield oval, truncate anteriorly; dorsal shield L/W 359/247; anterior part of dorsal shield with several small, pointed, posteriorly directed processes on each side (
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); eye pigment well developed; dorsal shield extending posterior to ventral shield; ventral shield (
<figureCitation id="C0A27C86FFC9FF8030C3FDFB18F1FD4E" box="[669,764,615,641]" captionStart="FIGURE 6 A E" captionStartId="11.[151,255,1953,1977]" captionTargetBox="[210,1349,195,1924]" captionTargetId="figure@11.[210,1384,189,1926]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="FIGURE 6 A E. Axonopsis periyar sp. nov., male: A = dorsal shield; B = idiosoma, ventral view; C = right palp, medial view; D = right IV-Leg- 4 - 6; E = left IV-Leg- 4 - 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/188903/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Fig. 6B</figureCitation>
) L/W 349/278; ventral shield oval, slightly truncate at anterior end; lateral margins of ventral shield with a small pointed projection on each side considerably posterior to the insertions of the fourth legs; tips of first and second coxae produced into pointed, recurved, hook-like processes; posterior margin of first and second coxae with small, pointed, posteriorly directed processes; capitular bay L 96; two pairs of glandularia lying between the genital field and insertions of the fourth legs, these relatively close together; three pairs of genital acetabula, these arranged in an arc; width between most lateral pair of acetabula 111; gonopore elongated L 32; chelicera total L 91; palp (
<figureCitation id="C0A27C86FFC9FF8036A8FCD31F5EFCA6" box="[1270,1363,847,873]" captionStart="FIGURE 6 A E" captionStartId="11.[151,255,1953,1977]" captionTargetBox="[210,1349,195,1924]" captionTargetId="figure@11.[210,1384,189,1926]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="FIGURE 6 A E. Axonopsis periyar sp. nov., male: A = dorsal shield; B = idiosoma, ventral view; C = right palp, medial view; D = right IV-Leg- 4 - 6; E = left IV-Leg- 4 - 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/188903/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Fig. 6C</figureCitation>
): total L 181, dL and %L (in parentheses): P-1 28 (15.5), P-2 42 (23.2), P-3 27 (14.9), P-4 61 (33.7), P-5 23 (12.7); L P-2/P-4 ratio 0.69; middle of ventral side of P-4 expanded, bearing a relatively heavy seta which lies on a small tubercle. Legs: L of I-Leg-2-6: 27, 26, 41, 58, 61; L of the IV-Leg: 45, 61, 61, 74, 97, 83; IV-Leg-5 (
<figureCitation id="C0A27C86FFC9FF8032C1FC751AFDFBCC" box="[159,240,1001,1027]" captionStart="FIGURE 6 A E" captionStartId="11.[151,255,1953,1977]" captionTargetBox="[210,1349,195,1924]" captionTargetId="figure@11.[210,1384,189,1926]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="FIGURE 6 A E. Axonopsis periyar sp. nov., male: A = dorsal shield; B = idiosoma, ventral view; C = right palp, medial view; D = right IV-Leg- 4 - 6; E = left IV-Leg- 4 - 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/188903/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Figs. 6</figureCitation>
D-E) expanded and bearing numerous thickened setae in posterior part of the segment.
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BFB8C1B10FBE6" box="[197,285,1040,1065]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Female</emphasis>
: unknown.
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<paragraph id="58266003FFC9FF80329BFBAA1BD8FB0B" blockId="10.[151,1437,263,1685]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">
<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BFBAA1B59FB9F" bold="true" box="[197,340,1078,1104]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Discussion.</emphasis>
The new species is the second representative of the subgenus
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF803613FBAB1F25FB9F" box="[1101,1320,1079,1104]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Plesiobrachypoda</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="3C081DF2FFC9FF80376FFBAB1ADBFBB8" author="Viets" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Viets, K. (1942) Zur Nomenklatur und Systematik der Hydrachnellae (Acari). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 138 (9 - 10), 210 - 212." type="journal article" year="1942">K. Viets, 1942</bibRefCitation>
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. The first described species,
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80306CFBC2191BFBB8" box="[562,790,1118,1143]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Axonopsis claviger</emphasis>
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was been described by
<bibRefCitation id="3C081DF2FFC9FF803668FBC11ED0FBB8" author="Walter" box="[1078,1245,1117,1143]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Walter, C. (1922) Zoologische Resultate der Reise von Dr. P. A. Chappuis an den oberen Nil. II. Hydracarina. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 30 (2), 63 - 86." type="journal article" year="1922">Walter (1922)</bibRefCitation>
from the White Nile,
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. A species from
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was reported by
<bibRefCitation id="3C081DF2FFC9FF803173FB1819CFFB51" author="Cook" box="[813,962,1156,1182]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Cook, D. R. (1974) Water mite genera and subgenera. Memories of the American Entomological Institute, 21, 1 - 860." type="journal article" year="1974">Cook (1974)</bibRefCitation>
in the collection of Dr. C. H. Fernando, but has not been described.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="58266003FFC9FF80329BFB4D1B05FA1C" blockId="10.[151,1437,263,1685]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">
Compared with
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF8033D2FB4D187BFB25" box="[396,630,1233,1258]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Axonopsis claviger</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF8030D9FB4D1909FB25" box="[647,772,1233,1258]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">A. periyar</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF803153FB4D1965FB24" bold="true" box="[781,872,1233,1259]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
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can be easily distinguished by the following features: dorsal shield extending posterior to ventral shield (not extending in A.
<taxonomicName id="9F991B80FFC9FF803628FB641ED7FADE" box="[1142,1242,1272,1297]" class="Arachnida" family="Axonopsidae" genus="Axonopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="30" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="claviger">
<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF803628FB641ED7FADE" box="[1142,1242,1272,1297]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">claviger</emphasis>
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), posterolateral margins of ventral shield with a small pointed projection on each side (without projection, with an obtuse angle in
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF8032A3FADA1B73FA90" box="[253,382,1350,1375]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">A. claviger</emphasis>
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), two pairs of glandularia lying between the genital field and insertions of the fourth legs (the illustration of
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80332CFAF01BFEFA4A" box="[370,499,1388,1413]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">A. claviger</emphasis>
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shows only one pair of glandularia but there are two closely spaced pairs in the specimen from
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(
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) and middle of ventral side of P-4 expanded (not expanded in
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF8037DCFA0F1AFAFA1D" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">A. claviger</emphasis>
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).
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<paragraph id="58266003FFC9FF80329BFA7C194AF9EE" blockId="10.[151,1437,263,1685]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">
<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BFA7C1B43FA35" bold="true" box="[197,334,1504,1530]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Etymology</emphasis>
. The specific epithet, alluding to the River
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, the
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locality of the new species, is proposed here as a noun in apposition to the generic name.
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BF9B11B21F988" bold="true" box="[197,300,1581,1607]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Habitat.</emphasis>
The single specimen was taken in interstitial waters. However, the well-developed eye pigment suggest that the surface habitat may prove to be the more typical one.
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<emphasis id="6AEDBC11FFC9FF80329BF9E61B53F95B" bold="true" box="[197,350,1658,1684]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30">Distribution</emphasis>
. Known only from the
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locality in Kerala State (
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).
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