Atractides latipes (Szalay, 1935)

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 : 228

ATRACTIDES LATIPES (SZALAY, 1935) ( FIG. 40A–G )

Megapus latipes Szalay, 1935b

Syn. A. remyi E. Angelier, 1951 : E. Angelier, 1954

Type series: Missing. Locus typicus: Hungary, Garamrudnó (Kom. Bars) aus dem Rudnóer Bache ; leg. Dr. E. Dudich am 18.VI.1932.

Material examined: Germany, D 448, Bayern ( GAP) Uffing, Ach downstr. Staffelsee , 1 km SE Heimgarten, 680 m, PT 5989 16.05.1993 Gerecke 1/1/0 ; Italy, I 1078 a, Sicily, T. Saracena at Chiusitta 20.06.1989 Ferrito 0/2/0; I 1079 a, same site, 19.07.89 0/3/0 ; Luxembourg, 30 B 6, Ösling, bassin de la Sùre, Schlënnerbaach, Frühjahr 1996 1 ♀; Int 4c, Ösling , bassin de la Sùre, Schlënnerbaach u. Chapelle St. Michel, Interstitial 3, 300 m, 72.5/113.2, 7.8.1998 Gerecke & Schrankel 1 ♂ .

Description:

General features dorsal integument: striated: muscle attachments: unsclerotized I-L: I-L-5 strongly thickened, S-1 and -2 different in size and shape, both with blunt tips, wide setal interspace, S-2 strongly enlarged; I-L-6 curved and thin, distally narrowed genital field: Ac in a weakly curved line excretory pore: sclerite ring; Vgl-1: fused to Vgl-2 palp: weak sexual dimorphism; ventral margin P-2 straight, P-3 straight or slightly concave; one of the two dorsodistal setae of P-2 enlarged, flattened and plumose, P-4 1: 1: 1, sword seta near distoventral hair

Male

Bayern, D 448

genital field: anterior margin equally convex, extended by a large, medially protruding border of secondary sclerotization, posterior margin with a deep and large indentation somewhat narrowed on the level of medial margins of Ac-3, gonopore short; genital setae: 30

idiosoma L/W 400/300; glandularia 45

coxal field L 200; Cx-3 W 234; Cx-1 + 2 mL 72, IL 130, W 171

I-L-5 dL 118, vL 77, dL/vL 1.53, HA-HC 48, 51, 59, dL/HB 2.31

S-1 L 70, L/ W 7.8, S-2 L 48, L/ W 4.8, interspace 21, L S-1/2 1.46

I-L-6 L 94, HA-HC 17, 12, 11, dL/HB 7.83; L I-L-5/6 1.26

genital field L/W 72/81, Ac-1–3 L 17-21-22

gnathosoma –; chelicera –

Figures

Figure 40. Atractides latipes, specimens from Bavaria (D 448). A, B, E, F, ♂ C, D, G, ♀. A, ♂ coxal field; B, ♂ genital and postgenital field; C, ♀ genital field; D, ♀ palp, medial view (with sword seta P-4 lacking); E, ♂ palp, medial view; F, ♂ I- L-5 and -6 (with S-1 slightly dislocated); G, ♀ I-L-5 and -6. Scale bars = 100 µm.