Schadeella crassipalpis Lundblad, 1938

K, Harry Smit, Pešić, Vladimir, K & K, Simon Clavier, 2022, Water mites from French Guiana, with the description of 14 new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Acarologia 62 (4), pp. 1119-1153 : 1139

Schadeella crassipalpis Lundblad, 1938

New record — 0/1/0, Petit-Saut Lake, date unknown, between 2007 and 2017, 4.939997°N, 53.044167°W, leg. S. Clavier.

Remarks — The specimen from French Guiana has less acetabula than the illustrated specimen of Lundblad (1943). Lundblad (1943) didn′t give the number of acetabula, but based on his illustration the specimen from Paraguay has the anterior genital plate with 4-6 acetabula and the posterior genital plate with 11-12 acetabula. The female from French Guiana has the anterior genital plate with two acetabula, and the posterior plate with eight acetabula. However, nothing is known about the variation in the number of acetabula. Therefore, we have assigned our specimen to Lundblad’s species.

Distribution — Paraguay ( Lundblad 1938, 1943), Brazil ( Besch 1969), French Guiana

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