New records of the water mite genus Arrenurus from India, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae)
Author
Smit, Harry
Author
Pesic, Vladimir
text
Zootaxa
2008
1894
53
58
journal article
48802
10.5281/zenodo.184396
7b2ec2c6-b41e-48f2-844f-e05052594768
1175-5326
184396
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) spinosus
Walter, 1929
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) incisifrons
Nayar, 1969
: 73
. New syn.
Lundblad (1969)
synonymized
A. projectus
Cook, 1967
with
A. spinosus
.
K.O. Viets (1987)
suspected
A. incisifrons
to be synonymous with
A. projectus
.
We agree with both authors, as both species have a similar shape of the idiosoma and petiole. Therefore
A. incisifrons
is now a junior synonym of
A. spinosus
.