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<mods:title>The water mite genus Sperchon Kramer, 1877 in Bhutan (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Sperchontidae), with the description of three new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>K, Harry Smit</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>K, Vladimir Pešić</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>K, Mer Man Gurung</mods:namePart>
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(
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A-D)
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,750,1234,1258]" pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Material examined</emphasis>
— 
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male, 
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, 
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(NBC).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,642,1303,1327]" pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Diagnosis</emphasis>
— Dorsal platelets large, especially postocularia platelets and Dc-5, the latter fused with Dgl-5; small ventral setae of P4 relatively close to each other.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,662,1372,1396]" pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Description</emphasis>
— Male: Idiosoma dorsally 705 long and 616 wide, ventrally 753 long. Integument reticulate. Dorsal platelets large, postocularia platelets and Dc-5 are the largest platelets (
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). All dorsal platelets paired except one platelet posterior to postocularia platelets. Gnathosoma 220 long, rostrum shorter than basal part. Cx-I separated medially, Cx-III with a glandularium (
<figureCitation box="[813,933,1510,1534]" captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="6.[119,188,1492,1513]" captionTargetBox="[126,1467,224,1394]" captionTargetId="figure-2@6.[118,1479,221,1438]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figure 3 Sperchon (Hispidosperchon) bhutanicus sp. nov., holotype male. A – dorsum; B – venter; C – gnathosoma + palp; D – IV-leg-4-6. Scale bars: A-B 200 µm, C-D 50 µm." pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Figure 3B</figureCitation>
). Excretory pore sclerotized, lateral to excretory pore a pair of large platelets. Length of P1-5: 34, 110, 156, 208, 41. P2 with a large anteroventral extension with one long and one shorter seta; P3 ventrally somewhat bulging; ventral margin of P4 with two small setae (
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). Length of I-leg-4-6: 188, 166, 154. Length of IV-leg-4-6: 288, 275, 259. Legs-II-IV with pectinate setae (
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). Leg claws with one clawlet and without claw blade.
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<paragraph blockId="5.[491,1533,1168,1948]" box="[531,721,1717,1741]" pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,655,1752,1776]" pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Etymology</emphasis>
— Named after the country where the new species has been collected.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[531,651,1787,1811]" pageId="5" pageNumber="758">Discussion</emphasis>
— The new species is most similar to 
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Lundblad, 1941
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, but differs in the following characters (those of 
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in parenthesis): dorsum with large platelets (smaller platelets), the ventral setae of P4 are lying close to each (more separated), ventral margin of P3 is convex (straight), P4 208 long (shorter, 136 long) and the gnathosoma is large, 220 long (smaller, 143 long).
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