Indoribates (I.) minutus ( Tseng, 1984 )

Xu, Shu-Jing, Liu, Cheng-Lin & Chen, Jun, 2024, Taxonomic contribution to the knowledge of the genus Indoribates and Lauritzenia (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae), with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 5556 (1), pp. 84-96 : 91

Indoribates (I.) minutus ( Tseng, 1984)

Lauritzenia minuta Tseng, 1984: 58 , figs 172–173.

Indoribates (Haplozetes) minutus ( Tseng, 1984) : Subías 2004: 208; Shtanchaeva et al. 2014: 76, figs 1–15.

Indoribates (Indoribates) minutus ( Tseng, 1984) : Subías 2004, updated 2021: 400.

Material examined. Four specimens (three females and one male on permanent slides, ZLH-13-106): China, Guangdong, Yangjiang, Hailing Island, Niutang Mountain , 21°34′34″N, 111°49′08″E, ca. 30 m a.s.l., litter under bamboo forest and arbor, 28.X.2013 ; three specimens (two females and one male on permanent slides, ZLH-13- 107): same locality as the above, 21°34′33″N, 111°49′08″E, ca. 20 m a.s.l., litter under bamboo forest, 28.X.2013 ; four specimens (two males in alcohol, two females on permanent slides, LK-14-041): China, Guangdong, Lianjiang, Gaoqiao Town , 21°36′06″N, 109°44′55″E, ca. 0 m a.s.l., litter under Eucalyptus sp. , 23.IV.2014 ; three specimens (two females and one male on permanent slides, LK-14-049): China, Guangdong, Lianjiang, Gaoqiao Town, Deyao Village ( Mangrove Reserve ), 21°32′48″N, 109°46′15″E, 4 m a.s.l., litter under arbor, 25.IV.2014 ; three males (on permanent slides, LK-14-058): China, Guangdong, Zhanjiang, Naozhou Island, Huangzhai Village , 20°56′33″N, 110°35′28″E, 3 m a.s.l., litter in the grass under pine trees, 27.IV.2014 ; one male (on permanent slide, LK-14-031): China, Guangxi, Beihai, Xieyang Island , 20°54′52″N, 109°12′28″E, ca. 80 m a.s.l., litter in the grass under the arbor, 21.IV.2014 ; fourteen specimens (one female and three males in alcohol, eight females and two males on permanent slides, LK-14-035): China, Guangxi, Beihai, Weizhou Island , 21°03′26″N, 109°06′09″E, 7 m a.s.l., litter in the grass under the arbor, 22.IV.2014 ; four males (on permanent slides, LK-14-037): same locality as “LK-14-035”, 21°03′30″N, 109°06′04″E, ca. 0 m a.s.l., litter under the bushes, 22.IV.2014 ; four males (on permanent slides, LK-14-045): China, Guangxi, Beihai, Hepu County, Xinxu Village ( Mangrove Reserve ), 21°29′58″N, 109°45′43″E, ca. 20 m a.s.l., litter under the arbor, 24.IV.2014 .

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan), Brazil.

Remarks. Due to possessing five pairs of genital setae, the species should be placed in Indoribates rather than Lauritzenia . Previously, it was placed in Indoribates (Haplozetes) ( Shtanchaeva et al. 2014; Subías 2004). Later, Subías (2004, updated 2021) placed it in Indoribates (Indoribates) . We support this opinion based on its monodactylous legs.