Agaue parva ( Chilton, 1883 )

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of deep-sea halacarid mites (Acari, Halacaridae) found from more than 1000 m depth, Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (23), pp. 249-268 : 251

Agaue parva ( Chilton, 1883)

Syns.: Halacarus parvus Chilton, 1883

Halacarus (Polymela) occultus Lohmann, 1907

Leptospathis bouvieri Trouessart, 1907

Leptospathis (Polymela) occultus ( Lohmann, 1907) Trouessart 1914

Halacarus (Polymela) pilosus Gimbel, 1919

Agaue occultus var. setifera Womersley, 1937

Agaue parva womersleyi Viets, 1950 ;

Agaue affinis Sokolov, 1962

Thalassarachna sokolovi Newell, 1984

Record from more than 1000 m depth – PSW - 55° S 130° W; 1061 m depth — Newell (1984).

Record from other depth (less than 1000 m depth) – ANT - Weddell Sea (Vestkapp, Halley Bay), off South Georgia, South Orkney Islands, Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Wiencke Island, King George Island, Anvers Island, Ross Sea, Georg V Coast (Common-wealth Bay), Terre Adélie, Wilkes Land, Gauss Station, Davis Sea, Admiralty Bay — Lohmann (1907), Trouessart (1907, 1914), Womersley (1937), Sokolov (1962), Newell (1984), Bartsch (1990a, 2016); PSW- New Zealand, South Pacific — Chilton (1883), Newell (1984).

Remarks – This species reported from intertidal to deep sea, epibenthic, epizoic on various substrate.

Bartsch (2004) doubted the report of Newell (1984) of Agaue parva which may belong to a different species. Bartsch (2004) commented that Agaue parva from tidal zone (Chilton 1983) was not identical with the species described by Newell (1984).