Hydryphantes (Polyhydryphantes) haliki Cook, 1986

K, Harry Smit & PešićK, Vladimir, 2023, New records of the water mite family Hydryphantidae Piersig from Australia with the description of five new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Acarologia 63 (4), pp. 981-997 : 982

Hydryphantes (Polyhydryphantes) haliki Cook, 1986

Material examined— Victoria. 0/1/0, Swamp at junction of Victoria Valley Road and Bundol Road, SW of Grampian National Park, 37°35′14.50″S, 142°18′58.36″E, 30 Sept. 1997 ;

1/7/0, Glenelg River at crossing with Henty Highway, 37°06.517′S 142°11.430′E, 327 m a.s.l.,

16 March 2008. New South Wales. 1/0/0, Small ponds N of Lake Hiawatha, Yuragir NP, 29°47.315′S 153°15.171′E, 10 Nov. 2003. Queensland. 3/7/0, Mt Carbine Dam, Mt Carbine, 16°32.019′S 145°07.525′E, 358 m a.s.l., 14 Oct. 2005 ; 0/2/0, Small lake Hawkwood Road, 13

km S of Mundaburra, 25°39.910′S 151°13.941′E, 130 m a.s.l., 31 Oct. 2005 ; 0/1/0, Emu Creek

at Clancy’s Camping Area, Benarkin State Forest, 26°58.334′S 152°09.916′E, 162 m a.s.l., 3

Nov. 2005; 1/0/0, Ewen Maddock Dam, NE of Landsborough, 26°47.795′S 152°59.416′E, 29

m a.s.l., 1 Dec. 2014. Northern Territory. 7/5/2, Lake Jabiru, 12°40.264′S 132°50.436′E, 43

m a.s.l., 27 Sept. 2005.

Distribution — Previously known from Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales and Western Australia ( Harvey 1998 ; Smit 1998), and here reported for the first time from Victoria. Furthermore, the species is known from New Caledonia ( Smit 2002).