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Albaxona lundbladi Motaş & Tanasachi 1947

Description

Albaxona lundbladi Motaş & Tanasachi, 1947 (Figs. 2A–E)

New records. Bingöl Province, Genç, Kupar stream, 38°44'31"N 40°32'35"E, 1000 m asl., 04.viii.2010 (1/0/0).

Morphology. Male: Dorsal shield L/W 376/258; ventral shield L/W 394/262; capitular bay L 69; W between most lateral pair of acetabula 105; gonopore W 20; dL and %L (in parentheses): P-1 18 (10.9); P-2 44 (26.7); P-3 26 (15.7); P-4 52 (31.5); P-5 25 (15.1); Legs: dL of L-3-6: 62-68-62; dL of IV-L: 82-56-72-83-95-76; legs without swimming setae.

Remarks. Pešiċ & Gerecke (2003) show that in the German populations of Axonopsis lundbladi Motaş & Tanasachi, 1947, the male genital plate varies from the completely separated (typical specimens as described in the original description, see: Motaş et al. 1947) to fused into a ventral shield but having a distinct suture line between the two sclerites. The specimens with the later character state was described by Schwoerbel (1962) as Albaxona gracilis (syn. to A. lundbladi, see Pešiċ & Gerecke 2003). The single Turkish male specimen has the genital field fused with the ventral shield but with visible traces of genital field delimitation. In all other important diagnostic features the specimen from Turkey agrees with A. lundbladi. Figure 2 A-E show some morphological details of the specimen from Bingol Province.

Distribution. Central-Southern Europe, British Isles. New for Turkey.

Notes

Published as part of Esen, Yunus, Pešić, Vladimir & Erman, Orhan, 2011, Water mites of the family Aturidae Thor, 1900 from Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with description of two new species, pp. 25-42 in Zootaxa 2746 (1) on pages 26-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2746.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/204454

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2010-08-04
Verbatim event date
2010-08-04
Scientific name authorship
Motaş & Tanasachi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Acari
Family
Aturidae
Genus
Albaxona
Species
lundbladi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Albaxona lundbladi Motaş, 1947 sec. Esen, Pešić & Erman, 2011

References

  • Motas, C., Tanasachi, J. & Orghidan, T. (1947) Hydracariens phreaticoles de Roumanie. Notationes biologicae, 5 (1 - 3), 1-67.
  • Pesic, V., Saboori, A., Asadi, M. & Vafaei, R. (2005) Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial waters of Iran, with the description of one new species. Zootaxa, 1030, 49-60.
  • Pesic, V. & Gerecke, R. (2003) Water mites of the genera Albaxona, Axonopsis, Barbaxonella and Erebaxonopsis (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Aturidae: Axonopsinae) from Central Europe and Mediterranean area. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 139 (4), 563-576.
  • Schwoerbel, J. (1962) Subterrane Wassermilben (Hydrachnellae und Thrombiidae) aus den Alpen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 168 (7 - 10), 292-300.