New water mite species of the genus Protzia Piersig, 1896 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Hydryphantidae) from Kazakhstan

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-2-162-166

Keywords:

Hydrachnidia, Hydryphantidae, Protzia, water mites, morphology, male

Abstract

An illustrated description of male of the new species Protzia aksuensis sp. nov. from running waters of Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve of Kazakhstan is given. The genital field of the new species with 9 pairs of acetabula and 13–14 pairs setae, all genital acetabula roundish on short stalks, genital setae located on very narrow slightly sclerotized strips; frontal eye not developed; leg claws with 10–12 lateral and medial clawlets.

References

Di Sabatino, A., Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T., Smit, H. (2010) 8. Acari: Hydrachnidia II. In: R. Gerecke (ed.). Suβwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Bd 7/2-2. Heidelberg: Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, S. 1–429. (In German)

Gerecke, R. (1996) Untersuchungen uber Wassermilben der Familie Hydryphantidae (Acari, Actinedida) in der Westpalaearktis, I. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Protzia Piersig, 1896 (Acari, Actinedida, Hydryphantidae). Archiv fur Hydrobiologie Supplementbande, Bd 77 (3/4), S. 271–336. (In German)

Sokolow, I. I. (1940) Hydracarina — vodyanye kleshchi (ch. I: Hydrachnellae) [Hydracarina — the aquatic mites (pt 1: Hydrachnellae)]. Moscow; Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences Publ., 510 p. (Fauna SSSR. Paukoobraznye [Fauna of the USSR. Arachnids]. Vol. 5, iss. 2). (In Russian)

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2021-04-28

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