Unionicola (Edwardsatax) flabelliseta Cook, 1986

Smit, Harry, 2008, Australian Unionicola (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Unionicolidae), with the description of two new subgenera and eight new species, Zootaxa 1674, pp. 1-26 : 3

Unionicola (Edwardsatax) flabelliseta Cook, 1986

Unionicola (Unionicola) flabelliseta Cook, 1986: 163 ; Smit 1992: 100.

Unionicola (Edwardsatax) flabelliseta Vidrine 1992: 464 ; Harvey 1998: 143.

Material examined. Queensland: 1 female, Nankeen Creek, Rockhampton, 26 June 1982, leg A.P. Mackay. Western Australia: 1 female, pond Kalamina Gorge, near falls, Hamersley Range NP, 22° 24’48.08”S 118° 24’34.50” E, 13 August 1994; 1 male, unnamed creek at crossing with Windjana Gorge Road, 38 km N of Great Northern Highway, 30 September 1998.

Description. Female: The female differs from the male only in the genital field and measurements. Idiosoma 1015 long and 804 wide. Genital field with two pairs of genital plates, anterior and posterior plate each with three acetabula. Anterior plate with two enlarged long setae, posterior plate with one enlarged long seta. Length of PI-PV: 22, 211, 40, 182, 85; palp as in male. Length of I-leg-4-6: 259, 215, 204; I-leg-2-5 thickened. Lengths of IV-leg-4-6: 300, 389, 365. Legs as in male.

Remarks. The female has not yet been described. Previously only known from the holotype male collected in Queensland and here reported for the first time from Western Australia.