Kawamuracarus stocki, Smit, 2003

Smit, Harry, 2003, A new species of the water mite genus Kawamuracarus Uchida from Oman (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Zootaxa 135, pp. 1-4 : 2-3

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.135.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5093324

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/046A800C-182C-C57C-E85D-FE6FFD1EFED0

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Kawamuracarus stocki
status

sp. nov.

Kawamuracarus stocki n. sp.

( Figs. 1­5 View FIGURES 1­2 View FIGURES 3­5 )

Material examined

Holotype female: Wadi Taww (23° 34' N 58° 01'E), Oman, collected with Bou­Rouche pump, 23 March 1996, leg. J.H. Stock ( ZMAN). GoogleMaps

Description

Female: Body 721 long and 583 wide. Body soft, dorsum without platelets, eyes absent. First coxal plates separated medially. Three pairs of acetabula, first pair of acetabula separated from second and third pair, margins of genital field indistinct; gonopore 150 long. Length of PI­PV: 30, 110, 84, 124, 53. Peg­like seta of PII thin, located disto­ventrally and somewhat distanced from ventral margin. PIV with two bifid setal tubercles. Lengths of I­leg­4­6: 110, 120, 112. Lengths of IV­leg­4­6: 176, 216, 190. Claws of legs I­ III simple, without clawlets. IV­leg­6 with a small claw, terminal seta 64 long. Legs without swimming setae.

Male: unknown.

Etymology Named after the collector of the material Prof. Dr. J. H. Stock.

Remarks

The new species is characterised by its reduced number of setal tubercles on PIV. All other members of the genus are bearing five or more setal tubercles on this segment. Cook (1980) considered five setal tubercles as the typical number. It is also the only member of the genus without dorsal platelets.

ZMAN

Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie, Zoologisch Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Acari

Family

Limnesiidae

Genus

Kawamuracarus

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