Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species
Smit, Harry
Pešić, Vladimir
Zootaxa
2014
3876
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1
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K. Viets, 1935
K. Viets
1935
[151,647,1135,1161]
Arachnida
Hygrobatidae
Atractides
Animalia
Trombidiformes
23
24
Arthropoda
species
propatulus
Material examined. 2/2/0, first stream Minduk Sirung Trail, Alab Station, CrockerRange, Borneo, Malaysia, 5º 49.249 N116º 19.862 E, alt. 1781 masl., 23-ix-2012; 2/6/0, Mahua stream, Mahua, CrockerRange, Borneo, Malaysia, 5º 47.838 N, 116º 24.510 E, alt. 1052 masl., 21-ix-2012; 1/1/0 (mounted), stream Kemantis, Sayap, Mt Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia, 6º 0 9.841 N116º 33.936 E, alt. 928 masl., 16-ix-2012; 0/2/0, Great Lumotok stream, Mt Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia, 6º 0 9.336 N116º 34.056 E, alt. 1087 masl., 17-ix-2012; 1/1/0, Little Lumotok stream, Sayap, Borneo, Malaysia, 6º 0 9.467 N116º 34.027 E, alt. 1069 masl., 17-ix-2012. Compared material. Atractides propatulus( K. Viets, 1935): Lectotype♂, here designated (on the same slide with the paralectotype, one palp and right I-leg separate), SMF4322 Atractides propatulus♂, type, K.Viets 42768, Java, Tjibodas, 1400 m, Kali Tjiwalen, 14.7.1929. Paralectotypes SMF4322 1♂(on the same slide with lectotype), SMF4336 1♀ (both palps and left I-leg-5/6 separate), labeled like lectotype. The original description does not contain a typedesignation.
Remarks. The specimens from Borneo differ in larger dimensions of idiosoma, I-leg-5/6 and palp. For clearing the taxonomic state of these populations, molecular techniques should be applied.
Distribution. South Sumatra ( K. Viets 1935), Sulawesi ( Pešić & Smit 2009), Borneo (our study).