Proboscibates tullyensis, Smit, 2015

Smit, H., 2015, A new hygrobatid genus from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae), Acarologia 55 (4), pp. 431-433 : 433

Proboscibates tullyensis n. sp.

Type material — Holotype male, Unnamed creek N of Tully River, Tully Gorge NP, Queensland, Australia, 17°46.590 S 145°39.871 E, alt. 80 m asl, 4-xi - 2014 ( QM).

Diagnosis — As for genus.

Description — Male. Idiosoma almost colourless, with some pale pink parts, ventrally 462 long, dorsally 332 long and 259 wide. Dorsum soft with four large plates, anterior plate with the postocularia, 116 long; posterior plate 124 long, with a pair of glandularia. Middle plates each with one glandularium. Idiosoma with a camerostome; capitulum 134 long, on a long protrusible tube; chelicera styletlike, 148 long. Idiosoma posteriorly with a large projection with dorsally the excretory pore and the genital field, the latter only well visible in posteromedial view. Ventral shield present. First coxae extending beyond anterior idiosoma margin. Suture line of coxae incomplete, suture line of fourth coxae absent. Glandularia of fourth coxae well posterior to suture lines of Cx-III and Cx-IV. Genital field with three pairs of acetabula, gonopore wide, 40 long. Length of P1-5: 18, 32, 23, 48, 30; P3 without a ventral projection. Length of I-leg-4-6: 110, 134, 100. I-leg-5 without a heavy seta, I-leg-6 somewhat tapering distally. IV-leg-4-6: 122, 130, 94. Swimming setae absent. Female: Unknown.

Etymology — Named after the Tully Gorge NP with the Tully River.