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Tetrahygrobatella chilensis Besch 1964

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Description

Tetrahygrobatella chilensis (Besch, 1964)

Hygrobatella (Tetrahygrobatella) chilensis Besch, 1964: 137; Cekalovic 1976: 41. Tetrahygrobatella chilensis (Besch): Cook 1980: 163, 1988: 82.

Material examined

Chubut Province: 8 females, Arroyo Leleque at crossing with Ruta 40, north of Esquel, 18 November 1999; 6 females, Arroyo Centinela, Los Alerces National Park, 19 November 1999; 1 female, Río Tecka, 30 km north of Tecka, 21 November 1999.

Santa Cruz Province: 23 females, Arroyo Calafate at El Calafate, 23 November 1999; 7 females, Río Mitre, west of El Calafate, 24 November 1999; 2 females, Río Centinela, west of El Calafate, 24 November 1999.

Tierra del Fuego Province: 1 female, Río Pipo, Tierra del Fuego National Park, 28 November 1999; 4 females, Río Olivia, east of Ushuaia, 29 November 1999; 2 females, Río Turbio at Tolhuin, 1 December 1999.

Other

Published as part of Smit, Harry, 2002, Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 103 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156012

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hygrobatidae
Genus
Tetrahygrobatella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Besch
Species
chilensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tetrahygrobatella chilensis Besch, 1964 sec. Smit, 2002

References

  • Besch, W. (1964) Systematik und Verbreitung der sudamerikanischen rheophilen Hydrachnellen. Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna, 3, 77 - 194.
  • Cekalovic, K. T. (1976) Catalogo de los Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari, Araneae y Solifugae de la XII region de Chile, Magallanes incluyendo la Antarctica chilena (Chile). Gayana (Zool.), 37, 1 - 108. [cited in: K. O. Viets 1982, 1988]
  • Cook, D. R. (1980) Studies on neotropical water mites. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 31, 1 - 645.