Arrenurus gibberifrons Piersig, 1906

Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2023, New records of water mites of the family Arrenuridae from the Oriental region, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Ecologica Montenegrina 66, pp. 1-10 : 3-4

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Arrenurus gibberifrons Piersig, 1906
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Arrenurus gibberifrons Piersig, 1906

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Material examined — Thailand. 10/5/0, Lotus-pond along road 2112, Ubon Ratchathani Province, 15°32.562 N 105°30.952 E, 140 m a.s.l., 8 Nov. 2017 GoogleMaps ; 8/1/0, small lake Huai Na Muang , E of Khemarat, Amnat Charoen Province, 16°02.149 N 105°15.860 E, 130 m a.s.l., 8 Nov. 2017 GoogleMaps ; 2/1/0, Sirindhom Reservoir , Ubon Ratchathani Province, 15°12.285 N 105°27.526 E, 149 m a.s.l., 9 Nov. 2017 GoogleMaps . India. 4/6/0, stagnant stream, Sasan Gir , Gujarat, 21°10.439 N 70°35.567 E, 132 m GoogleMaps a.s.l, leg. P.W. Veel & N. Jonker.

Distribution — Widespread in the Oriental region: Java, Indonesia ( Piersig 1906, Walter 1929), Malaysia ( Viets 1927), China ( Uchida & Imamura 1951), India ( Cook 1967, Lundblad 1969, Smit & Pesic 2008, Pešić et al. 2010), Myanmar ( Lundblad 1969), Thailand ( Savatenalinton & Smit 2017) and Bangladesh ( Pešić et al. 2018).

Cook, D. R. (1967) Water mites from India. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 9, 1 - 411.

Lundblad, O. (1969) Indische Wassermilben, hauptsachlich von Hinterindien. Arkiv for Zoologi, 22, 289 - 443.

Pesic, V., Chatterjee, T. & Bordoloi, S. (2010) A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and descriptions of one new species. Zootaxa, 2617, 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2617.1.1

Pesic, V., Belal, Hossain M., Chatterjee, T., Islam, Saiful MD & Zawal, A. (2018) First records of water mites from Bangladesh (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new species. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 23, 868 - 882. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 23.5.7

Piersig, R. (1906) Uber Susswasser-Acarinen von Hinterindien, Sumatra, Java und den Sandwich-Inseln. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 23, 321 - 394.

Savatenalinton, S. & Smit, H. (2017) New records of water mites from standing waters in Thailand, with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa, 4312, 69 - 91. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4312.1.3

Smit, H. & Pesic, V. (2008) New records of the water mite genus Arrenurus from India, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae). Zootaxa, 1894, 53 - 58. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1894.1.4

Uchida, T. & Imamura, T. (1951) Some water-mites from China. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Series 6, Zoology, 10, 324 - 358.

Viets, K. (1927) Wassermilben von Hinterindien. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 73, 315 - 322.

Walter, C. (1929) Hydracarinen aus Java. Treubia, 11, 211 - 273.

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Figure 1. Arrenurus gibberifrons Piersig. A-B male from Sirindhom Reservoir, C female from small lake Huai Na Muang: A = dorsum; B = lateral view; C = dorsum. Scale bars = 200 µm.