New records of the water mite family Arrenuridae from the Afrotropical region, with the description of 11 new species and two new subspecies (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
Author
Smit, H.
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-02-09
3187
1
31
journal article
1175-5326
Arrenurus (Micruracarus) larochei
Walter, 1924
(
Fig. 56
)
Material examined.
CAMEROON
. 1/1/0,
Lac Ngaoundaba
,
Ngaoudére
,
6-viii-2000
, leg.
Renz.
SOUTH AFRICA
. 3/5/0,
RNNP
Dam
,
Royal NP
,
KwaZulu-Natal Province
,
28° 41.231 S
28° 57. 379 E
, alt.
1439 m
asl
,
20- xi-2004
.
Remarks.
Previously reported from
Kenya
and
South Africa
(K.O.
Viets 1970
) and
Cameroon
(
Bader 1981
). The male from
Cameroon
reported here differs from specimens from
Kenya
and
South Africa
in the hyaline membrane along the posterior concavity lacking the pointed extension (see
Fig. 56
).