Torrenticola haliki Pešić & Smit, 2010

Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas, Das, Mrinal Kumar & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2013, A new species of water mite (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Assam, India, found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Botiidae), Zootaxa 3746 (3), pp. 454-462 : 458

Torrenticola haliki Pešić & Smit, 2010

( Fig. 4 C )

Remarks. The single male specimen taken from the gut content of Botia dario agrees well with the original description of Torrenticola haliki , a species so far known only from Malaysia (Pešić and Smit 2010). This species was confused with Torrenticola semisuta (see: Wiles 1997, Pešić and Smit 2009 a), from which it can easily be distinguished by the shape of palp with a short seta located on the nose-shaped anteroventral extension of P- 2 (see Fig. 4 C ). New for India.

Figures

FIGURE 4 A – C. A – B Hygrobates cf. sinensis Uchida & Imamura, 1951, female: A = genital field; B = palp. C Torrenticola haliki Pešić & Smit, 2010, male: palp, medial view. Scale bars = 100 Μm.