Corticacarus nilsoni Besch, 1964

Smit, Harry, 2002, Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Zootaxa 103, pp. 1-23 : 14

Corticacarus nilsoni Besch, 1964

Corticacarus (Corticacarus) nilsoni Besch, 1964: 144 ; Cekalovic 1976: 41. Corticacarus (Corticacarides) nilsoni Besch : Cook 1980: 171. Corticacarus nilsoni Besch : Cook 1988: 100.

Material examined

Neuquén Province: 1 female, Río Chimehuín at Junín de los Andes, 12 November 1999; 1 male, Río Chimehuín west of Junín de los Andes, 13 November 1999.

Chubut Province: 2 females, small stream with pools in river bed of Río Azul, Lago Puelo National Park, 17 November 1999; 1 female, Río Tecka, 30 km north of Tecka, 21 November 1999.

Santa Cruz Province: 8 females, Arroyo Calafate at El Calafate, 23 November 1999; 2 females, Río Bote at crossing with route 40, El Calafate, 25 November 1999.

Remarks

A widespread species, occurring from the Argentine Neuquén Province in the north to the Chilean Magallanes Province in the south. The subgeneric assignment is not clear. Besch ( 1964) assigned it to the typical subgenus. Cook ( 1980) placed it in the subgenus Corticacarides , but later Cook ( 1988) came to a different conclusion, and left it without subgeneric assignment.