Halacaropsis hirsuta
- 1. . Department of Aquaculture, Isparta University of Applied Sciences, 32260 Isparta, Türkiye; E-mail: f _ durucan @ hotmail. com
- 2. . Grupo de Investigaciones Entomológicas de Tenerife, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; E-mail: juancarlos @ nuryana. com
- 3. . Grupo de Investigaciones Entomológicas de Tenerife, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; E-mail: juancarlos @ nuryana. com &. Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; E-mail: davidhdez @ ipna. csic. es
Description
Halacaropsis hirsuta (Trouessart, 1889)
Material examined
35 females, 7 males (FDHAL-21/8), 8 deutonymphs (FDHAL-21/9), 4 protonymphs (FDHAL-21/10), El Pris (Jania sp. and Amphiora sp., 2 m); 14 females, 5 males, one larva (FDHAL-21/11), La Barranquera (Corallina ferreyrae, Palisada perforata, mediolittoral zone).
Diagnosis
The length of females was 650–740 µm, for males 620–660 µm, for deutonymphs 560–580 µm, for protonymphs 410–470 µm and for the larva 300–310 µm long. Dorsal and ventral plates large. AD and OC with pair of gland pores. AD has a frontal spine anteriorly. Idiosoma have 5 pairs of idiosomatic setae on adult females and males. This species has the ds-1 on AD. Enlarged setae from ds-2, ds-3 and ds-4 situated in striated integument. It has ds-5 on PD. Adanal setae on anal plate. PE with one dorsal and three ventral setae. Leg I thickened and armoured with heavy spiniform setae and wider than the following legs in all stages (Figs. 4A, C–E). GA with 21 pairs of pgs and 5 pairs of sgs. Spermatopositor large, extending to anterior margin of GA (Fig. 10D).
Remarks
This species is very common in the Mediterranean Sea (Croatia, Egypt, France, Italy, Spain, Strait of Gibraltar and Türkiye) (Durucan 2020, 2021) and North Atlantic waters (Bartsch 2009). Specimens were found among macroalgae and sand habitats. At the two Tenerife localities, we found more than 70 individuals including all life-stages. The morphological characteristics, habitat preferences and body sizes of the specimens reported here fit with previous records by Viets (1940) and Durucan (2019a).
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10267950 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.22073/pja.v12i1.76823 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10267938 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7A366E01FFFA8F18FFF85250FFA2CF61 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Halacaridae
- Genus
- Halacaropsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Trouessart
- Species
- hirsuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Halacaropsis hirsuta (Trouessart, 1889) sec. Durucan, Paz & Hernández-Teixidor, 2023
References
- Viets, K. (1940) Meeresmilben aus der Adria (Halacaridae und Hydrachnellae, Acari). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte (Neue Folge), 9: 1 - 135.
- Durucan, F. (2020) Mediterranean and Black Sea marine halacarids (Halacaridae: Acari): A review. Journal of Black Sea / Mediterranean Environment, 26 (3): 352 - 373.
- Durucan, F. (2021) Halacaridae (Acari: Prostigmata) of the Aegean Sea of Turkey (Canakkale and Izmir). Persian Journal of Acarology, 10 (3): 341 - 346. DOI: 10.22073 / pja. v 10 i 3.676 99
- Bartsch, I. (2009) Checklist of marine and freshwater halacarid mite genera and species (Halacaridae: Acari) with notes on synonyms, habitats, distribution, and descriptions of the taxa. Zootaxa, 1998: 1 - 170.
- Durucan, F. (2019 a) New halacarid records from Antalya, Turkey (Acari, Halacaridae). Munis Entomology and Zoology, 14 (1): 270 - 282.