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<mods:title>Water mites of the genusLebertia Neuman, 1880 from the eastern Himalayas (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Gerecke, Reinhard</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Smit, Harry</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. &amp; Biesingerstrasse 11, DE 72070 Tübingen, Germany.</mods:affiliation>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[491,597,1112,1138]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Lebertia</emphasis>
(
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[735,917,1112,1138]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">himalayaensis</emphasis>
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Zoobank:
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<paragraph blockId="2.[491,1573,1168,2018]" box="[531,745,1199,1223]" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">
(
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A-E, 6A)
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,655,1234,1258]" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Type series</emphasis>
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,
<emphasis bold="true" box="[830,946,1234,1258]" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">
<collectingCountry box="[830,920,1234,1258]" name="Bhutan" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Bhutan</collectingCountry>
03
</emphasis>
,
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,
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river, pool 3 (
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), 27°21.883
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N,
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,
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a.s.l.,
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, leg. W. Klein, slide mounted (
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).
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,
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03
</emphasis>
, stream at Jorsalle,
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,
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, alt
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leg P.W.
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Veel, slide mounted (
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).
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Other material examined
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03
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, 1 dn slide mounted.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,646,1407,1431]" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Diagnosis</emphasis>
— Integument smooth or with a fine striation; small in dimensions (total L genital field
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123,
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130; total L palp
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234,
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227; L IV-L-4-6, 145; 155-165; 150-155);
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<paragraph blockId="2.[491,1573,1168,2018]" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">legs without swimming setae; P-3 mediodistal seta close to dorsodistal seta (A/B 3.4-3.6); P-4 maximum H in distal part, insertions of setae dividing ventral margin into short proximal and distal, and a large central sector(s) (21-24/47-52/28-29 %).</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,662,1579,1603]" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Description</emphasis>
— Integument thin and smooth, a fine striation locally visible. Cx-I/-II nearly equal in medial L (ratio 0.9-1.1), posterior margin rather wide (33). Glandularia V3 and setae
</paragraph>
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V1 not fused to coxal shield, V-3 far away from posterolateral margin Cx-IV (
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). Proportions and setation of distal segments of fourth leg as in
<figureCitation box="[1168,1283,1683,1707]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="3.[119,186,1633,1654]" captionTargetBox="[103,1481,229,1568]" captionTargetId="figure-2@3.[103,1494,221,1577]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figure 1 Lebertia(Lebertia) himalayaensisn. sp., type series. A-D, ♂; A venter; B gnathosoma with left palp and chelicera in situ; C right palp medial; D IV-L-3-6; E ♀ genital field. Scale bars: 100 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7160298" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7160298/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Figure 1D</figureCitation>
; IV-L-6 slightly bowed, with 2-3 fine and short ventral setae; IV-L claw L 35-40. Genital field (
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) with lateral margins of genital flaps strongly diverging from anterior to posterior end, medial setae (
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: 20,
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: 9) in a single row. Excretory pore smooth. Gnathosoma with an equally rounded ventral margin (
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). P-2 relatively slender (L/H 1.49-1.57), ventral seta basally strong, slightly shorter than L of segment (
<figureCitation box="[798,914,1855,1879]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="3.[119,186,1633,1654]" captionTargetBox="[103,1481,229,1568]" captionTargetId="figure-2@3.[103,1494,221,1577]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figure 1 Lebertia(Lebertia) himalayaensisn. sp., type series. A-D, ♂; A venter; B gnathosoma with left palp and chelicera in situ; C right palp medial; D IV-L-3-6; E ♀ genital field. Scale bars: 100 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7160298" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7160298/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="303">Figure 1C</figureCitation>
); P-3 rather slender, in basal part not strongly narrowed, dorsal and ventral margin equally diverging from base to tip, with 5 medial setae (2 side by side dorsocentrally, medio-and dorsodistal setae close to each other near distal edge, distoventral seta near segment edge); P-4 club shaped, with dorsal and ventral margins distinctly diverging from base to distal quarter, mediodistal peg seta strong, pointed, ventral setae separated by a wide gap (nearly 50 % segment L), proximoventral setae near proximal, distoventral seta near distal segment end. Measurements: see
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[119,205,1633,1654]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Figure 1</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[409,552,1633,1655]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">himalayaensis</emphasis>
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, type series. A-D, ♂; A venter; B gnathosoma with left palp and chelicera in situ; C right palp medial; D IV-L-3-6; E ♀ genital field. Scale bars: 100 µm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,654,1868,1892]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Etymology</emphasis>
— Named for its occurrence in the Himalayas.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,651,1902,1926]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Discussion</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[695,954,1902,1926]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Lebertia himalayaensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[954,1016,1902,1926]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[954,1016,1902,1926]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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differs from many Asian
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<emphasis box="[1307,1406,1902,1926]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Lebertia</emphasis>
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species in the complete absence of swimming setae. Among the four species with the same diagnostic character state, only
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<emphasis box="[820,976,1971,1995]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">L. sutschanica</emphasis>
Sokolow, 1934
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agrees in a smooth integument, for the other three, an integument sculpturation is reported:
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<emphasis box="[1092,1186,2006,2029]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">L. acuta</emphasis>
Sokolow, 1934
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(reticulation),
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<taxonomicName authority="Wang &amp; Guo, 2016" authorityName="Wang &amp; Guo" authorityYear="2016" box="[491,849,229,254]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cylindrica">
<emphasis box="[491,636,229,253]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L. cylindrica</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authority="Wang et al., 2020" authorityName="Wang" authorityYear="2020" box="[901,1276,229,254]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudomaglioi">
<emphasis box="[901,1094,229,253]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L. pseudomaglioi</emphasis>
Wang
<emphasis box="[1163,1218,229,253]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">et al.</emphasis>
, 2020
</taxonomicName>
(long, resp. short lines). All these species are distinctly major in dimensions (e.g., coxal shield L&gt; 500, genital flap L&gt; 150, P-4 L&gt; 100), and none of these has the ventral setae on P-4 as widely separated as
<taxonomicName authority="Gerecke &amp; Smit, 2022" authorityName="Gerecke &amp; Smit" authorityYear="2022" box="[522,712,333,357]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="himalayaensis" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis box="[522,712,333,357]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L. himalayaensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[712,773,333,357]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[712,773,333,357]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
Among the species known from Europe (
<bibRefCitation author="Gerecke R." box="[1245,1392,333,357]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" refId="ref9673" refString="Gerecke R. 2009. Revisional studies on the European species of the water mite genus Lebertia Neuman," type="book" year="2009">Gerecke 2009</bibRefCitation>
), in the combination of a smooth integument, legs without swimming setae and a clavate P-4,
<taxonomicName authority="Gerecke &amp; Smit, 2022" authorityName="Gerecke &amp; Smit" authorityYear="2022" box="[1440,1462,369,392]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis box="[1440,1462,369,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[491,1528,229,772]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">
<emphasis box="[491,651,402,426]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">himalayaensis</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[651,712,403,427]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[651,712,403,427]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is most similar to
<taxonomicName authority="K. Viets, 1925" authorityName="K. Viets" authorityYear="1925" box="[918,1188,402,426]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="castalia">
<emphasis box="[918,1039,402,426]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L. castalia</emphasis>
K. Viets, 1925
</taxonomicName>
. This species differs from
<taxonomicName authority="Gerecke &amp; Smit, 2022" authorityName="Gerecke &amp; Smit" authorityYear="2022" box="[491,680,437,461]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="himalayaensis" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis box="[491,680,437,461]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L. himalayaensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[680,740,437,461]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[680,740,437,461]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
in the position of P-4 ventral setae (closer to each other, proportions of ventral sectors 2:3:2) and general major dimensions (e.g., palp total L&gt; 320, IV-L-4-6
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[491,1528,229,772]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">
L&gt; 180).
<taxonomicName authority="Thor, 1899 a" authorityName="Thor" authorityYear="1899" box="[611,945,506,530]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fimbriata">
<emphasis box="[611,817,506,530]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">Lebertia fimbriata</emphasis>
Thor, 1899 a
</taxonomicName>
further European species combining a smooth integument and clavate P-4, differs in the presence of two long distal swimming setae at the penultimate segments of III-L and IV-L. New molecular data indicate that this taxon represents a species group with several so far cryptic species in Europe (unpubl. data). As to judge from the published figures and data, a male from
<collectingCountry box="[1000,1069,644,668]" name="China" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">China</collectingCountry>
recently attributed to this species (
<bibRefCitation author="Wang J. &amp; Jin D-C. &amp; Yi T. &amp; Guo J." pageId="4" pageNumber="305" pagination="54 - 63" refId="ref10566" refString="Wang J., Jin D-C., Yi T., Guo J. 2016 Water mites of the subgenus Lebertia (Lebertia) Neuman from China (Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae). Zool. Syst., 41: 54 - 63." type="journal article" year="2016">
Wang
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
) is similar to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thor" authorityYear="1899" box="[734,869,678,702]" class="Arachnida" family="Lebertiidae" genus="Lebertia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="305" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fimbriata">
<emphasis box="[734,869,678,702]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">L. fimbriata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in shape of idiosoma and palp, but differs from European specimens in proportions and setation of IV-L (stouter, L/H IV-L-4-6, 4.2, 4.7, 4.6, IV-L-5).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[491,1528,229,772]" box="[491,1131,748,772]" pageId="4" pageNumber="305">Thus, it is obviously a representative of a different species.</paragraph>
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