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Issue: Vol. 4457 No. 2: 8 Aug. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.2.11
Page range: 346–350
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species in the water mite subgenus Majumderatax Vidrine, 1993 from Sri Lanka (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Limnology, Institute for Research on Biodiversity, Faculty of Biology, Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Szczecin, Wąska 13, 71–415 Szczecin, Poland.
Acari Hydrachnidia Sri Lanka

Abstract

Majumderatax was originally established by Vidrine (1993) as a subgenus of Unionicola Haldeman, 1842 with U. hankoi Szalay, 1927 as type species. It is probably a monophyletic clade (Gerecke et al. 2016), characterized by the following features: (i) I-L-5 with a characteristic, blade-like distoventral seta, and (ii) P-5 short and stocky, with a strong, bifurcated claw.

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