Hygrobates (Hygrobates) sanguineus K. Viets, 1956

Smit, Harry, 2005, Water mites of the family Hygrobatidae Koch from southern Africa (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Journal of Natural History 39 (38), pp. 3369-3405 : 3384

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scientific name	Hygrobates (Hygrobates) sanguineus K. Viets, 1956
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Material examined

Holotype: male, Great Berg River , Western Cape Province, South Africa, 11 January 1953, leg. Harrison (slide 7788, SMF) . Other material: South Africa, Western Cape Province: five males, seven nymphs, Wolwekloof River at Tweede Tol, Limietberg NR, alt. 285 m a.s.l., 33 ° 34.115 9 S, 19 ° 08.255 9 E, 3 November 2004 .

Description

Male. Idiosoma 648–778 long and 421–599 wide. Shape of idiosoma variable, some specimens elongated with tapering posterior idiosoma part. In older males all glandularia surrounded by red-coloured secondary sclerotization. Close to anterior margin of genital field a pair of glandularia, fused with secondary sclerotization in older males, separated in a teneral male. I-leg-6 with one heavy, blunt seta.

Female. Unknown.

Remarks

K. Viets (1956) based his description on one teneral and one fully sclerotized male. In his description, he did not mention the occurrence of a pair of glandularia close to or fused with the anterior margin of the genital field. After examination of the holotype, it can be concluded that K. Viets overlooked this pair of glandularia.