Torrenticola episce Pešić, Chatterjee, Kumar Das & Bordoloi, 2013

PešićK, Vladimir, K, Harry Smit & K, Mer Man Gurung, 2022, Torrenticolid water mites of Bhutan. Genera Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 and Neoatractides Lundblad, 1941 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae), Acarologia 1941 (3), pp. 821-860 : 822-824

Torrenticola episce Pešić, Chatterjee, Kumar Das & Bordoloi, 2013

Figures 1B, 6D

Material examined — Bhutan, MG 3 Bipgang Chhu, 27.15729°N, 90.66721°E, 586 m asl, 28.vi.2021, 2♀ (1♀ dissected and slide mounted).

Description — General features – Idiosoma roundish (dorsal shield L/W ratio 1.2–1.3); shoulder platelets fused with dorsal plate, but suture line visible; area of primary sclerotization of the dorsal plate with two dorsoglandularia; gnathosomal bay U-shaped, proximally rounded; Cxgl-4 posterior to Cxgl-2; medial suture line of Cx-II+III relatively short, 81 µm in ♂ holotype ; excretory pore and Vgl-2 clearly posterior to the line of primary sclerotization; excretory pore slightly anterior to Vgl-2; suture of Cx-IV curved. Gnathosoma ventral margin curved, rostrum well developed; P-2 ventrodistal protrusion slender; ventral margins of P-2, -3 and -4 with fine, indistinct serrations; P-2 longer than P-4; P-4 with visible ventral tubercles ( Figure 6D). Female (in parentheses measurements from original description; Pešić et al. 2013) – Idiosoma

L 769 (806–850), W 625 (663–687); dorsal shield L 625 (700–713), W 519 (556); medial suture Cx-II+III L 29 (16–38); genital field L 178 (64–166), W 138 (136–137); L P-2 117

(120–128), P-4 95 (105–109).

Remarks — This species was described by Pešić et al. (2013) on basis of specimens found in the gut contents of the fish species Botia dario from Assam, India.

Distribution — India (Assam), Bhutan (this study).