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
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1
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journal article
36776
10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1
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1175-5326
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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.