Australiobates reticuloides Wiles, 1997

Smit, Harry, 2013, New records of water mites mainly from Vogelkop, New Guinea (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of one new genus and thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3716 (2), pp. 207-235 : 218

Australiobates reticuloides Wiles, 1997

Material examined. 0/1/0, stream at Mokwam, West Papua Province, 1° 0 6.585 S 133° 54.630 E, alt. 1519 m asl, 6-xi-2001; 1/0/0, small stream ± 2,5 km S of Mokwam, West Papua Province, 1° 0 5.881 S 133° 54.272 E, alt. 1612 m asl, 8-xi-2011; 0/1/0, unnamed creek crossing road Mokwam-Manokwari, West Papua Province, 0° 59.596 S 133° 53.390 E, alt. 1320 m asl, 10-xi-2011; 1/0/0, River at Warkapi, S of Manokwari, West Papua Province, 1° 0 9.978 S 134° 0 7.028 E, alt. 101 m asl, 13-xi-2011; 0/1/0, River Asiti, W of Senopi, West Papua Province, 0° 51.469 S 132° 54.957 E, alt. 502 m asl, 22-xi-2011.

Remarks. Only specimens without sclerotized plates have been collected, which are characterized by a coarse lineation of the idiosoma. Previously known from Papua New Guinea and Papua Province, Indonesia.