Oxus halophilus E. Angelier, 1947

Sabatino, Antonio Di, Gerecke, Reinhard, Gledhill, Terence & Smit, Harry, 2009, On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea, Zootaxa 2266, pp. 1-34 : 20

Oxus halophilus E. Angelier, 1947

Species incerta

Discussion: Eugene Angelier (1947) described this species from the interstitial of a sandy beach near Banyuls-sur-Mer, France. The only known specimen, described as a male, has only two pairs of acetabula. Moreover, P-2 of this specimen was depicted with a ventrodistal peg seta or prominent denticle. We think that his description is based on a misshapen specimen, and that the projection on P-2 is an artifact – in this position, no setae have been found in any oxid species, and the absence of ventral setae from this segment is probably a synapomorphy of the family. As the original description is very poor, and the holotype is lost, we consider it a species incerta .