Axonopsis caeca, Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014

Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, Zootaxa 3876 (1), pp. 1-71 : 57-58

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:071AFC59-C2EA-429A-8511-BAC5C4539C04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696012
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D48784-A913-FF8F-FF35-16B1FCD1FD6B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Axonopsis caeca
status	sp. nov.

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Axonopsis caeca n. sp.

( Figs. 34A–D View FIGURES 34 A – D )

Type series. Holotype female, Mahua stream, Mahua, Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia, 5º 47.838 N 116º 24.510 E, alt. 1052 m asl, 21-ix-2012 ( RMNH).

Diagnosis. Lateral eyes reduced, anterior part of dorsum with a typical configuration of reticulate pattern, forming a series of curved parallel lines.

Description. Female: Colour pale yellow, idiosoma 425 long dorsally and 421 ventrally, 308 wide, eyes reduced. Dorsal shield 284 wide, with six pairs of glandularia, anteriorly broadly fused with ventral shield; excretory pore fused with dorsal shield, flanked by the sixth pair of glandularia. Dorsum anteriorly with a reticulate pattern forming a series of curved parallel lines. Cx-I and -II rugose, extending to anterior idiosoma margin. Venter anterolaterally with a ridge. Apodeme of gnathosoma very long. Suture lines of coxae obliterated. Between fourth leg sockets and genital field two pairs of glandularia, one large and one small. Genital field with three pairs of acetabula, fused with ventral shield. Length/height of P1-P5: 26/16, 45/38, 22/23, 46/26, 48/12. Length of I-leg- 4–6: 51, 56, 46. Length of IV-leg-4–6: 66, 70, 52.

Male: Unknown.

Etymology. Named for the reduced lateral eyes.

Remarks. No representative of the subgenus has previously been found in the Oriental region. Axonopsis caspica Pešić & Saboori, 2006 from Iran ( Pešić et al. 2006) is similar in the reduction of lateral eyes (a character state not mentioned in the original description), but differs in much broader anterior coxae and much longer ventral setae of P4. Axonopsis (Vicinaxonopsis) iranica Pešić, Jabaleh & Saboori, 2009 from Iran differs from A. caeca in the glandularia between the fourth leg sockets and genital field on each side more distanced from each other and a more stocky P4.

Distribution. Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.