Oxus (Oxus) neotasmanicus ( Cook, 1986 )

Orginal, Harry Smit, 2021, The water mites of Western Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 13 new species, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 928-966 : 936

Oxus (Oxus) neotasmanicus ( Cook, 1986)

New records — 3/0, Cockatoo Creek at crossing with Great Northern Highway, 8 Sept. 1998 ; 1/0, plunge pool Adcock Gorge, the Kimberley, 12 Sept. 1998 ; 1/0, Miner’s Pool, Drysdale River Homestead, the Kimberley, 14 Sept. 1998 ; 2/0, Lake Kununurra, 10 km SE of Kununurra, 15°52′7.45″ S 128°45′46.75″ E, 19 Sept. 1998 ; 18/0, Spillway Creek near Lake Argyle, 20

Sept. 1998.

Distribution — Previously known from Queensland ( Cook 1986), and reported here for the first time from Western Australia.