Arrenurus madaraszi Daday, 1898

Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2023, New records of water mites of the family Arrenuridae from the Oriental region, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Ecologica Montenegrina 66, pp. 1-10 : 4-5

Arrenurus madaraszi Daday, 1898

Material examined — Thailand. 5/2/0, Pond along road 12, E of Nong Ruea, Khon Kaen Province, 16°29.230 N 102°28.301 E, 195 m a.s.l., 6 Nov. 2017 ; 1/1/0, rice field along road 208, Maha Sarakham, Maha Sarakham Province, 16°10.972 N 103°10.411 E, 150 m a.s.l., 6 Nov. 2017 ; 5/4/0, south-side Ubon Ratana Dam , Maha Sarakhan Province, 16°31.395 N 102°30.275 E, 182 m a.s.l., 6 Nov. 2017 ; 1/4/0, Lotus-pond along road 2112, Ubon Ratchathani Province, 15°32.562 N 105°30.952 E, 140 m a.s.l., 8 Nov. 2017 ; 10/5/0, small lake Huai Na Muang , E of Khemarat, Amnat Charoen Province, 16°02.149 N 105°15.860 E, 130 m a.s.l., 8 Nov. 2017 ; 0/1/0, Ban Pra Reservoir , Chon Buri Province, 13°12.173 N 100°59.366 E, 33 m a.s.l., 18 Nov. 2017 . India. 2/7/0, stagnant stream, Sasan Gir , Gujarat, 21°10.439 N 70°35.567 E, 132 m a.s.l, 4 Feb. 2017, leg. P.W. Veel & N. Jonker ; 1/0/0, lake at Ahmedpur Mandvi , southern part, Gujarat, 20°44.637 N 71°00.374 E, 7 Feb. 2017, leg. P.W. Veel & N. Jonker. Nepal. 1/0/0, River Geruwa at Thakurdwara , 28° 26.300 N 81° 13.700 E, 16 Mar. 2023, leg. P.W. Veel and A. Olsthoorn.

Distribution — A species widespread in the Oriental region: Sri Lanka ( Daday 1898, Lundblad 1969, K.O. Viets 1973, Zawal et al. 2020, 2023), Sumatra and/or Java ( Piersig 1906, Koenike 1906, Walter 1929, Viets 1935), India ( Walter 1928, Cook 1967, Lundblad 1969, Smit & Pesic 2008), Singapore (K.O. Viets 1959), Myanmar ( Lundblad 1969), Malaysia ( Wiles 1988), Thailand ( Savatenalinton & Smit 2017) and Bangladesh ( Pešić et al. 2018). Furthermore, reported from China ( Marshall 1921, 1928, Walter 1923, Uchida & Imamura 1951, Jin & Guo 1992, Jin & Wiles 1996), Japan ( Miyazaki 1935, Uchida & Miyazaki 1935, Uchida 1937, Imamura 1953a, b, c, 1954, 1956, 1961) and Australia ( Smit 1999, 2002).