Litarachna duboscqi Walter, 1925

Durucan, Furkan, 2021, New records of marine water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from Turkey, Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (2), pp. 145-153 : 146

Litarachna duboscqi Walter, 1925 ( Fig. 2 )

Material – 1♂, Antalya (Hamitbey Beach) (sand, 5–7 m depth), 30.07.2018 .

Male – Idiosoma 315 long and 272 wide. Genital field 33 long. Number of perigenital setae is 27 ( Fig. 4 ). Lengths of P1-P5: 25, 50, 32, 70, 27 (Fig. 11). The species easily differs from other Litarachna having a pair of small platelets with coxoglandularia 4 and associated setae fused with a glandularium-like structure in one platelet lying in the integument between the posterior apodemes of coxae IV. Shape of palps with a ventral protrusion on the fourth segment ( Durucan et al. 2018). Litarachna duboscqi is widely distributed in the Mediterranean Sea ( Durucan et al. 2018). The morphological characteristics of the specimens from Antalya matches description given by Pešić et al. (2019).

Figures

Figure 2. Litarachna duboscqi Walter, 1925 – (a) Male idiosoma, ventral view; (b) Male palp, lateral view. Scale bars: 100 µm.

Figure 4. Pontarachna aenariensis Mari & Morselli, 1983 – (a) Idiosoma female, ventral view; (b) Palp female, lateral view. Scale bar: 100 µm.