The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

HARRY SMIT

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4033.4.7

Issue: Vol. 4033 No. 4: 27 Oct. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-10-27

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.4.7

Page range: 567–583

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The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura
**and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia)**

HARRY SMIT⁺⁻

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.

Acari Systematics new species water mites Hygrobatidae Australia

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Abstract

The following eight new species are described from Australia: Gondwanabates crassipalpis, G. flavus, G. spatulifer, Rhynchaustrobates bipartitus, R. sclerosus, R. truusae, R. uniscutatus and R. victorianus. Numerous new records are given of the following hygrobatid genera in Australia: Aspidiobatella Cook, 1986, Australoricacarus K.O. Viets, 1978, Gondwanabates Imamura, 1984 and Rhynchaustrobates Cook, 1986. The males of Aspidiobatella smola Cook and Gondwanabates hopkinsi Imamura and the female of Gondwanabates crassipes Cook are described for the first time.