Torrenticola kumari Pešić & Smit, 2020

PešićK, Vladimir, K, Harry Smit & K, Mer Man Gurung, 2022, Torrenticolid water mites of Bhutan. Genera Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 and Neoatractides Lundblad, 1941 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae), Acarologia 1941 (3), pp. 821-860 : 828

Torrenticola kumari Pešić & Smit, 2020

Figures 1D–H, 5

Material examined — Bhutan, MG 2 Berti Chhu, 27.16264°N, 90.66003°E, 590 m asl, 25.x.2021, 3♂ (1♂ juvenile), 3♀ (1♀ juvenile) (1♂ dissected and slide mounted); ibid., 26.iv.2021, 1♂, 1♀ ; MG 5 Dakpay Chhu, 27.14621°N, 90.69220°E, 539 m asl, 1.v.2021 1♀

(juvenile), dissected and slide mounted.

Diagnosis — General features – Idiosoma oval; dorsal shield with a colour pattern as illustrated in Figure 1D ; area of primary sclerotization of the dorsal plate with two dorsoglandularia; gnathosomal bay U-shaped, proximally rounded; Cxgl-4 subapical; medial suture line of Cx-II+III relatively short; suture lines of Cx-IV in the both sexes distinctly extending posteriorly beyond posterior margin of genital field, laterally curved; excretory pore and Vgl-2 away from the line of primary sclerotization, excretory pore on the level of Vgl-2; gnathosoma with a strongly curved ventral margin; P-2 and P-4 almost equal in length; P-2 ventral margin straight, ventral seta relatively long, P-2 and P-3 ventrodistal protrusions pointed, P-2 ventrodistal extension curved distally, P-4 with a well-developed ventral tubercle bearing one longer and three shorter setae ( Figure 5D). Male (measurements of one specimen from Berti Chhu;

in parentheses measurements from original description; Pešić et al. 2020) – Idiosoma L 634

(700), W 502 (565); dorsal shield L 553 (580), W 416 (469); medial suture Cx-II+III L 62 (72); genital field with obtuse, but distinct anterior angles, L/W 140 (163)/112 (127); ejaculatory complex conventional in shape, anterior keel, proximal and distal arms well developed ( Figure 1H); P-2 91 (105), P-4 91 (102).

Remarks — The examined specimens from Bhutan generally match the description of T. kumari Pešić & Smit, 2020 , a species recently described from Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand State of India ( Pešić et al. 2020). The populations of the latter species from

India were originally assigned to T. semisuta Halík, 1930 , a species described from Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (Halík 1930), from which it differs in a larger size and a different colour pattern of the dorsal shield (see Pešić et al. 2020 for a discussion).

Distribution — India (Uttarakhand), Bhutan (this study).