Neoacarus hibernicus Halbert, 1944

Pesic, Vladimir, Saboori, Alireza, Asadi, Mahdieh & Vafaei, Reza, 2005, Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial waters of Iran, with the description of one new species, Zootaxa 1030 (1), pp. 49-60 : 56

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1030.1.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5052953

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Neoacarus hibernicus Halbert, 1944
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Neoacarus hibernicus Halbert, 1944

( Figs. 14–16 View FIGURES 14­16 )

Material examined: IR52 Markazi Province, Pole Doab stream 15 km after Shahzand city, 21.07.2003, leg. Pesic (0/0/2).

Remarks: The Iranian deutonymphs show a general conformity with the Central European specimens (K. Viets 1955). Differences are found in the shape of posterior margin of Cx­1+2 which is more rounded in our specimens ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 14­16 ), while it is more pointed in specimens from Central Europe. However, the attribution of the Iranian populations to the species should be verified by studies on adult specimens. Figures 14­16 View FIGURES 14­16 show some morphological details of the deutonymph from Markazi Province which represent the first record of the species in the study area.

Distribution: England, Ireland, S France, Central and south­east Europe, Italy, Balkan, Iran.

Halbert, J. N. (1944) List of Irish fresh-water mites (Hydracarina) - Clare Island Survey 39 (1). Proceedings of the Irish Academy Dublin (London), 50 B, 39 - 104.

Viets, K. (1955) In subterranen Gewassern Deutschlands lebende Wassermilben (Hydrachnellae, Porohalacaridae und Stygothrombiidae). Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 50, 33 - 63.

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FIGURES 14­16. Neoacarus hibernicus Halbert, 1944, deutonymph: 14 = parts of idiosoma, ventral view; 15 = palp, medial view; 16 = palp, lateral view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm