Notoaturine water mites from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Notoaturinae) with the description of five new species
Author
Smit, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2017
4247
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16
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.2
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Planaturus setipalpis
Cook, 1983
(
Fig. 4A
)
Material
examined. North
Island
. 0/1/0,
Makotuku
stream,
Horopito
, 39°
20.796 S
175°
22.686 E
, alt.
563 m
asl,
10-xii-2014
.
South
Island
. 1/0/0,
Cardrona River
, upstream,
between Queenstown and Wanaka
, 44°
56.625 S
168°
57.749 E
, alt.
725 m
asl,
25-xii-2014
.
FIGURE 2A–E.
Planaturus pileatus
n. sp
.
, holotype female. A = dorsum; B = venter; C = gnathosoma + palp; D = P1
–
3; E = IV-leg
–
2
–
6. Scale bars = 50 µm.
FIGURE 3A–F.
Planaturus serratus
n. sp
.
, holotype female. A = dorsum; B = venter; C = gnathosoma + palp; D = P3
–
5; E = IV-leg-3
–
6; F = IV-leg-1
–
2. Scale bars = 50 µm.
Remarks
. The male of Cardrona River has a more deeply indented and less wide hood (see fig. 4A), but is otherwise similar. This male is ventrally 332 long and 211 wide, the dorsal shield is 243 long which is much smaller than the measurements given by
Cook (1983)
. The
holotype
is ventrally 714 long and 456 wide, the dorsal shield is 502 long. But based on the image of the
holotype
placed on the website of the Museum in
Wellington
, including scale bar, the
holotype
is only 333 long and the dorsal shield measures 214. Therefore, I assume that some errors have occurred in the measurements of the
type
series.