Atractides sokolowi (Motas & Tanasachi, 1948)

Gerecke, Reinhard, 2003, Water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Parasitengona: Hygrobatidae) in the western Palaearctic region: a revision, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 138, pp. 141-378 : 260-261

ATRACTIDES SOKOLOWI ( MOTAŞ & TANASACHI, 1948)

( FIG. 53A–F )

Megapus sokolowi Motaş & Tanasachi, 1948

Type series: Missing. Locus typicus: Romania, Vallée de la Bughea, basin de l’Argeş (reg. Pitesti) le 25.X.1948, 2 ♂, 3 ♀ .

Description:

General features

Original description: dorsal integument: lineated; muscle attachments: unsclerotized coxal field: posteromedial margin of Cx-1 equally rounded I-L: I-L-5 longish and slender, S-1 and -2 close to each other, similar in shape,

I-L-6 weakly curved, claws strong genital field: Ac large, in triangular arrangement excretory pore: sclerotized; Vgl-1: not fused to Vgl-2 palp: no sexual dimorphism, ventral margin P-2 weakly convex, P-3 straight,

P-4 divided 1: 1: 1, with weakly developed denticles near hair insertions,

sword seta between ventral hair insertions, approached to distoventral hair

Male

Original description: genital field: slightly enlarged, with equally convex anterior and medially indented posterior margin genital setae: 25 palp: P-4 more robust and with more dense hair cover than in females idiosoma L/W 500/420; glandularia – (small) coxal field L 284; Cx-3 W –; Cx-1 + 2 mL 116, IL –, W – I-L: (no measurements, calculated from Fig. 48 ) I-L-5 dL/HB 4.73, I-L-6 L/HB

4.46, L I-5/6 1.34 genital field L/W 115/140, Ac-1–3 – gnathosoma vL 112; chelicera –

Figures

Figure 48. Atractides latipalpis. A, B, syntype ♂ from type series of A. dentiferus (= syn. to A. latipalpis); C, ♂ from Luxembourg; D, syntype ♀ from type series of A. dentiferus. A, ♂ I-L-5 and -6; B, ♂ idiosoma, ventral view; C, ♂ palp, medial view; D, ♀ genital field. Scale bars = 100 µm.

Figure 53. Atractides sokolowi after Motaş et al. (1958). A–D, ♂. A, idiosoma, dorsal view; B, idiosoma, ventral view; C, I-L-5 and -6; D, palp; E, F ♀. E, palp; F, idiosoma, ventral view. No magnification scale bar available.