Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species Author Smit, Harry Author Pešić, Vladimir text Zootaxa 2014 3876 1 1 71 journal article 36776 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1 c40a76a9-ec38-46e1-b9ff-869544e5f692 1175-5326 287281 071AFC59-C2EA-429A-8511-BAC5C4539C04 Albaxona mahuaensis n. sp. ( Fig. 29A–C ) Type series . Holotype male, Mahua stream at crossing with main road, Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia , 5º 45.225 N 116º 26.085 E , alt. 752 m asl, 22-ix-2012 ( RMNH ). Diagnosis . Idiosoma elongated, postocularia relative far from each other, dgl-3 and dgl-4 lying anteriorly, gonopore of male with subparallel margins, genital field fused with ventral shield. Description . Male: Idiosoma elongate, dorsally 387 long and 255 wide, ventrally 421 long. Eyes absent. Dorsal shield with postocularia and four pairs of glandularia, 372 long and 198 wide. Suture lines of coxae incomplete, suture lines of Cx-I and Cx-II distinct, other suture lines indistinct, posterior margin of fourth coxae not visible. A pair of glandularia halfway fourth leg sockets and genital field. Genital field fused with ventral shield, with the three pairs of acetabula lying in a triangle. Gonopore somewhat rectangular, 40 long and 32 wide. Length/height of P1–P5: 22/15, 42/26, 33/23, 62/18 , 28/12. Length of I-leg-4–6: 70, 70, 68. Length of IV-leg-4–6: 86, 84, 52. Swimming setae absent. Excretory pore not sclerotized. Female : Unknown. Etymology . Named after the type locality. Remarks . The new species differs from A. hexapora ( K. Viets, 1935 ) from Java in the more elongated idiosoma. Albaxona javanica Lundblad, 1971 from Java shares an elongated idiosoma, but is smaller, the postocularia are closer to each other and dgl-3 and -4 are located more anteriorly. Distribution. Borneo; known only from the locus typicus.