Koenikea (Notomideopsis) brasiliensis Lundblad, 1930

K, Harry Smit, Pešić, Vladimir, K & K, Simon Clavier, 2022, Water mites from French Guiana, with the description of 14 new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Acarologia 62 (4), pp. 1119-1153 : 1137-1138

Koenikea (Notomideopsis) brasiliensis Lundblad, 1930

( Figure 12 A-B)

New record — 1/2/0, Petit-Saut Lake, date unknown, between 2007 and 2017, 4.939997°N, 53.044167°W, leg. S. Clavier.

Description — Male – Idiosoma dorsally 721 long and 705 wide, ventrally 737 long. Dorsal shield complete, 664 long and 632 wide, configuration of glandularia as described for female. Apodemes of anterior coxae reaching almost till middle of Cx-IV. Genital field indistinct with approximately 25 pairs of acetabula, surrounding a pair of glandularia ( Figure 12A). Gonopore 108 long. Length of P1-5: -, -, 60, 96, 40. P4 anterodorsally with a relatively long seta ( Figure 12B). Length of I-leg-4-6: 170, 211, 259. Legs-I and II with long fluted of grooved setae. Length of IV-leg-4-6: 239, 316, 211; IV-leg-5 with a row of 13 pectinate setae and a large terminal pectinate seta. Swimming setae: III-leg-4 one, III-leg-5 two, IV-leg-4 three, IV-leg-5 two.

Remarks — The male was thus far unknown, and therefore a descriptions is given above. The anterodorsal long seta of P4 is present in the females of this study too, but was not illustrated by Lundblad (1943). Possibly this seta was broken off in Lundblad’s specimen.

Distribution — Brazil ( Lundblad 1930), Paraguay ( Lundblad 1943), French Guiana (this study).