Austrotritia saraburiensis Aoki, 1965

Niedbała, W., 2012, An Updated Study Of Ptyctimous Mite Fauna (Acari: Oribatida) Of The Australasian Region With A Description Of Thirteen New Species, Acarologia 52 (2), pp. 183-228 : 211

Austrotritia saraburiensis Aoki, 1965

( Figures 12 B-D)

Measurements of specimen from ANIC-313: prodorsum: length 364, height 111, width 268, sensillum 126, setae: interlamellar 68, lamellar 60, rostral 53; notogaster: length 646, height 475, width 485, setae: c 1 81, c 2 61, c 3 101, h 1 91, p 1 83; genitoaggenital plate 162 × 96, anoadanal plate 353 × 76. The specimen from Australia is smaller than the specimens from Thailand ( Aoki 1965), Japan ( Aoki 1980) and Samoa ( Niedbała 1998a) but has all typical specific characters, especially: presence of median prodorsal crista, the longest setae c 3 of notogaster, longer setae ag 2 than ag 1.

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FIGURE 12: Sabacarus corneri Ramsay et Sheals, 1969 (specimen from DOR-015): A – lateral view of body; Austrotritia saraburiensis Aoki, 1965 (specimen from ANIC-313): B – prodorsum, dorsal view, C – lateral view of body, D – ventral view of opisthosoma, left side.