Gondwanabates bodivus Cook, 1986

Smit, Harry, 2015, The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Zootaxa 4033 (4), pp. 567-583 : 569

Gondwanabates bodivus Cook, 1986

Material examined. Queensland. 0/1/0, Whyanbeel Creek, N of Mossman, 16º 22.205 S 145º 19.633 E, alt. 143 m asl, 15-x-2005; 0/1/0, Babinda River, Wooroonooran NP, 17º 20.484 S 145º 52.113 E, 16-x-2005; 0/3/0, Woobadda Creek, S of Bloomfield, 15º 57.204 S 145º 20.891 E, alt. 21 m asl, 17-x-2014; 0/3/0, Wenlock River near Moreton Telegraph Station, Cape York Peninsula, 12º 27.336 S 142º 38.444 E, alt. 34 m asl, 19-x-2014; 3/3/0, Clohesy River near Fig Tree, Dinden NP, 16º 56.140 S 145º 37.033 E, alt. 442 m asl, 30-x-2014; 0/2/0, Emerald Creek below falls, Dinden NP, 17º 0 3.159 S 145º 32.494 E, alt. 467 m asl, 31-x-2014; 0/3/0, Mulgrave River near outflow Kearney’s Creek, Goldsborough Valley, Wooroonooran NP, 17º 14.430 S 145º 46.456 E, alt. 69 m asl, 1-xi- 2014; 0/1/0, Babinda River, Babinda, 17º 20.386 S 145º 52.102 E, alt. 57 m asl, 2-xi-2014; 1/2/0, Unnamed creek with big boulders, Goldsborough Valley, Wooroonooran NP, 17º 15.959 S 145º 47.118 E, alt. 105 m asl, 2-xi-2014; 0/1/0, Henrietta Creek, Wooroonooran NP, 17º 35.884 S 145º 45.548 E, alt. 390 m asl, 3-xi-2014; 1/1/0, Tully River at campground, Tully Gorge NP, 17º 46.280 S 145º 39.073 E, alt. 86 m asl, 4-xi-2014; 0/1/0, Gooligan Creek at crossing with Palmerston Highway, Wooroonooran NP, 17º 36.267 S 145º 45.726 E, alt. 370 m asl, 7-xi-2014. Northern Territory. 1/5/0, South Alligator River at crossing with Gunlom Road, Kakadu NP, 13º 29.704 S 132º 28.601 E, 30-ix-2005; 0/1/0, 17 Mile Creek, Nitmiluk NP, 14º 18.318 S 132º 25.293 E, 4-x-2005.

Remarks. Known previously from Queensland and the Northern Territory ( Smit 2001). In specimens from this study the length of capitulum plus anchoral process varies between 140 and 164. In the higher reaches of these measurements separation with G. imamurai Cook, 1986 is not clear. The latter species was described by Cook (1986) based on a single female with the capitulum plus anchoral process 176 long. The capitulum including anchoral process of the holotype male of G. bodivus measured 129. In the Tully River the anchoral process of the male measured 130, in the accompanying female 144. Females with an anchoral process less than 164 are assigned to G. bodivus , and those with an anchoral process larger than 170 to G. imamurai . Another good character is the distance between the genital field and the posterior idiosoma margin. In female G. imamurai this is almost twice as much as in G. bodivus (100–124 in imamurai versus around 60 in bodivus ). One male (from Unnamed creek Goldsborough Valley with big boulders) has one of the glandularia posterior to the posterior dorsal plate fused with the posterior plate.