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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3841.1.1" ID-GBIF-Dataset="07cca84d-e413-47d9-9ea5-5d24be4dce1b" ID-ISSN="1175-5326" ID-Zenodo-Dep="286746" ID-ZooBank="5FAADB3D-2359-453F-8BF5-1C2A33C6D178" checkinTime="1460460685218" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Gerecke, Reinhard" docDate="2014" docId="03AD87B0FFB41461FF46BA49FBD684EE" docLanguage="en" docName="zt03841p046.pdf" docOrigin="Zootaxa 3841 (1)" docStyle="DocumentStylede.uka.ipd.idaho.easyIO.settings.Settings@4b05a9b1" docStyleName="zootaxa.2013.journal_article" docTitle="Aturus crinitus Thor 1902" docType="treatment" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="9" masterDocId="FF94FFC8FFB31469FFD1BC4BFFE2830B" masterDocTitle="Studies on European species of the water mite family Aturidae Thor (Acari: Hydrachnidia)" masterLastPageNumber="46" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="8" updateTime="1677002133583" updateUser="tatiana">
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<mods:title>Studies on European species of the water mite family Aturidae Thor (Acari: Hydrachnidia)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Gerecke, Reinhard</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2014</mods:date>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6144742" ID-GBIF-Taxon="127669123" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6144742" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03AD87B0FFB41461FF46BA49FBD684EE" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD87B0FFB41461FF46BA49FBD684EE" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="9" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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<paragraph blockId="7.[151,476,1538,1598]" box="[151,476,1538,1565]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
<heading bold="true" box="[151,476,1538,1565]" fontSize="11" level="1" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" reason="1">
<taxonomicName authority="Thor, 1902" authorityName="Thor" authorityYear="1902" box="[151,476,1538,1565]" class="Arachnida" family="Aturidae" genus="Aturus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinitus">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,334,1538,1564]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Aturus crinitus</emphasis>
Thor,
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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<figureCitation box="[151,222,1573,1598]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1620,1642]" captionTargetBox="[153,1436,203,1583]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[153,1439,203,1585]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Aturus crinitus (I 181), SEM photographs. A. D. male; A. IV-L- 4 5 anteroventral; B. IV-L- 4 5 posteroventral; C. dorsum; D. posterolateral idiosoma; E. female genital field posterolaterally. Scale bars: A B, E: 20 µm, C D 50 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/286748/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Figs 2</figureCitation>
,
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</paragraph>
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Material examined.
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and
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/
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:
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, GR
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(
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/
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/0).
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: Basilicata, I
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(
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I
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</date>
Int (
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(
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/
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(
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/0/0),
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I
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/
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/ 0); Sicily,
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I
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</date>
(
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/
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/0),
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I
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(
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/
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(
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(
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/
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(
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(
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), I
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(
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/
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(
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/
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(
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I
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</date>
(
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/
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/0),
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: YU
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(
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/
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/0), YU
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(0/
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/
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).
<collectingCountry box="[635,772,1785,1809]" name="Serbia" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Montenegro</collectingCountry>
: YU
<number box="[834,862,1785,1809]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" value="32.0">32</number>
(0/
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/0).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[151,1436,1640,2025]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
Uncertain records.
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: Basilicata,
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I
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</date>
Int (0/
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(0/
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I
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</date>
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I
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</date>
(0/
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/0); Sicily,
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</date>
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(0/
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(0/
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), I
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Int
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Int (0/
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/0),
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I
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</date>
(0/
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/0),
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I
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</date>
Int (0/
<number box="[284,297,1893,1917]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" value="3.0">3</number>
/0);
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: YU
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(0/
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/
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);
<collectingCountry box="[654,791,1893,1917]" name="Serbia" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Montenegro</collectingCountry>
: YU
<number box="[853,881,1893,1917]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" value="32.0">32</number>
(0/
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/0).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="9" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" type="discussion">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,1928,1953]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Remarks.</emphasis>
Females collected together with male
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<emphasis box="[751,869,1929,1952]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">A. crinitus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are characterized by a low distance ratio Dgl-
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/
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of
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2.0; and genital plates with only
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setae located near medial acetabula. In other character states geographical differences are found:
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compared with females from the Mediterranean area, Central European females have higher numbers of acetabula (
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vs.
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pairs) and lateral Vgl fused to primary ventral sclerotization, but medial ones lying in secondary sclerotization (Mediterranean females with both Vgl in primary sclerotization, the lateral one generally slightly more distanced from posterior primary sclerotization border which is straight or slightly concave in this part).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,274,1575,1597]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[281,432,1576,1597]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Aturus crinitus</emphasis>
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. A.B. female; A. venter; B. dorsum; C. male dorsum. Scale bar = 100 µm.
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Associated males do not show noteworthy differences except for their generally minor size (e.g., idiosoma L in general &lt;
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, central European specimens
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µm). These differences are remarkable and suggest that
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<emphasis box="[151,318,1745,1768]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Aturus crinitus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
could represent a group of cryptic species. This topic merits further research, along with diagnostic differences in comparison with
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<emphasis box="[514,632,1781,1805]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">A. villosus</emphasis>
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Motaş &amp; Soarec,
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, a species similar in size to the Mediterranean populations of
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<emphasis box="[318,434,1817,1840]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">A. crinitus</emphasis>
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, but with males differing in lower number of bulbous setae and shortened distal segments of IV-L.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="8.[151,1436,1672,2021]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,513,1888,1913]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Habitat and distribution.</emphasis>
Different
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of low order streams, in Central Sicily also under semiarid conditions with elevated electrolyte concentrations (
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Gerecke
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a
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). It is noteworthy that this species has not been detected on
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and Sardinia. Absence of this species which is rather frequently recorded from most parts of Europe would be a remarkable zoogeographical feature of the fauna of the islands.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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