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© Амурский зоологический журнал. VI(3), 2014.253-255 % Accepted: 22.08.2014
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© Amurian zoological journal. VI(3), 2014.253-255
Published: 30.09.2014
ON THE TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE WATER MITE HYDRACHNA KISSELEWI SOKOLOW, 1928
(ACARI: HYDRACHNIDAE)
P.V. Tuzovskij
[Тузовский П.В. О систематическом статусе водяного клеща Hydrachna kisselewi Sokolow, 1928 (Acari: Hydrachnidae)] Institute for Biology of Inland Waters of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Nekouz District, Yaroslavl Province, 152742, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]
Институт биологии внутренних вод РАН, Борок, Некоузский район, Ярославская область, 152742, Россия. E-mail: [email protected]
Key words: Hydrachnidae, Hydrachna kisselewi, water mite, morphology, male, deutonymph, Adygea, Russia Ключевые слова: Hydrachnidae, Hydrachna kisselewi, водяной клещ, морфология, самец, дейтонимфа, Адыгея, Россия
Summary: An illustrated redescription of male and deutonymph of the water mite Hydrachna kisselewi from North Caucasus is given.
Резюме: Иллюстрированное переописание самца и дейтонимфы водяного клеща Hydrachna kisselewi из Северного Кавказа.
INTRODUCTION
Among the materials from the North Caucasus sent to me for identification I found a rare water mite species Hydrachna kisselewi Sokolow, 1928, that was known formerly only from Central Asia [Sokolow 1928, 1940]. The species description, especially male and deutonymph, was very brief and insufficiently illustrated. Some researchers [Lundblad, 1956, 1962; K.H. Viets, 1956; K.O. Viets, 1987] consider H. kisselewi as a junior synonym of Hydrachna proces-sifera Koenike, 1903. The aim of this paper is to describe the morphology of male and deutonymph of H. kisselewi and to discuss the taxonomic status of this species.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The material was sampled with a common hand net 250 ^m mesh size. Specimen was fixed in 4 % formalin. Mites were mounted in Hoyer's medium.
Idiosomal setae are named according to Tuzovskij [1987]. Furthermore, the following abbreviations are used: P-1-5, pedipalp segments (trochanter, femur, genu, tibia and tarsus); I-Leg-1-6, first leg, segments 1-6 (trochanter, basifemur, telofemur, genu, tibia and tarsus), i.e. III-Leg-4 = genu of the third leg; L - length, W - width; H - height; n = number of specimens measured. The length of appendage segments was measured along their dorsal side; all measurements are given in ^m.
Familly Hydrachnidae Leach, 1815
Genus Hydrachna Müller, 1776 Hydrachna kisselewi Sokolow, 1928 (Figs 1-18)
Material examined. Male and deutonymph collected in small pond of Majkop-city, Republic Adygea
(North Caucasus), 18 July 2012, leg. V. Manzhurina and Yu. Saprykina.
Diagnosis. Male: P-1 longer than P-2; median eye not developed; coxal plate IV with narrow, pointed anteromedial process; genital field heart-shaped, deeply indented anteriorly, ejaculatory complex with rectangular proximal chamber, long curved proximal arms and short straight distal arms; capitulum slightly curved ventrally.
Deutonymph: acetabular plate with numerous small acetabula, single rosette acetabula and two to three thin, short setae; coxal plate IV with narrow pointed anteromedial process.
Male. Idiosoma spherical. Integument soft, with short papillae rounded distally (Fig. 1). Number and position of idiosomal setae typical for genus Hydrac-na [Tuzovskij, 1987]. Setae Fch (Fig. 2) slightly longer than other idiosomal setae associated with glan-dularia (Fig. 3). Trichobothria Fp and Oi short and not associated with glandularia. Anterior portion of dorsum (Fig. 4) with two pairs of unequal sclerites; anterior pair of sclerites very small oval and bearing Fp; posterior pair large, elongate and bearing Oi. Lateral eyes in capsules, median eye not developed.
Coxal plates (Fig. 5) in four groups, coxal plates I, III-IV with a single seta each, coxal plate II without seta. Coxal plate II with short, wide posterome-dial apodeme. Coxal plate III with straight, oblique medial margin directed anterolaterally, anterior and medial margins forming obtuse anteromedial corner. Coxal plates IV large, with concave medial margins embracing genital field, posteromedial corner broadly rounded, with well developed posterolaterally directed secondary sclerotization, and two narrow subcutaneous processes (pointed anteromedial and obtuse posterolateral). Excretory pore surrounded by a scler-
Figs 1-6. Hydrachna kisselewi Sokolow, 1928, male: 1 -fragment of integument, 2 - seta Fch, 3 - seta He, 4 - anterior part of dorsum; 5 - coxal plates, 6 - excretory pore. Scale bars: 1 = 50 ^m; 2, 3 = 100 ^m; 4-6 = 200 ^m
otized ring (Fig. 6).
Genital field (Fig. 7) heart-shaped, deeply indented anteriorly, laterally slightly narrowed at the level of anterior edge of gonopore; anterior portion bearing numerous minute acetabula and a few scattered fine setae, and posteriorly directed gonopore flanked by two groups of numerous short, fine setae in the posterior part. Ejaculatory complex (Fig. 8) with rectangular proximal chamber, long curved proximal arms, short straight distal arms, well developed posterior keel and narrow anterior keel.
Capitulum (Fig. 9) curved ventrally with a long rostrum. Chelicerae very slender, pointed distally and with a few teeth dorsodistally (Fig. 10).
Pedipalp stout (Fig. 11): P-1 large elongate with parallel dorsal and ventral margins, one dorsodistal and one mediodistal short setae; P-2 shorter than P-1, with five dorsal and one lateral short setae; P-3 thin, long, with concave ventral margin proximally, but over most part of segment slightly convex, dorsal
Figs 7-12. Hydrachna kisselewi Sokolow, 1928, male: 7 -genital plate, 8 - ejaculatory complex, 9 - capitulum, 10 -chelicera, 11 - pedipalp, 12 - claw. Scale bars: 7, 9-10 = 200 ^m, 11 = 100 ^m, 12 = 50 ^m
margin straight, with three dorsal and three lateral setae; P-4 short, with strong dorsodistal claw, one mediodistal and two ventral setae; P-5 short with several short distal spines and setae.
All legs segments bearing numerous, rather uniform, setae distributed all over the segment surface; numerous long swimming setae on the posterior surface II-IV-Leg-4/5, II-IV-Leg-6 much shorter than
II-IV-Leg-5, but IV-Leg- 6 shorter than II/ffl-Leg-6, I-Leg-5/6 subequal in length. Claws of all legs simple, minute with supraclaw platelet (Fig. 12).
Measurements (n=1). Coxal field L 1250, W 1190; anterior dorsal platelets L 75, W 50; posterior dorsal platelets L 200-250, W 110-120; genital plate L 600, W 660; capitulum L 1430, rostrum L 560; chelicera L 1560; pedipal-pal segments (P-1-5) L/H: 325/275, 265/210, 335/100, 140/60, 75/37; leg segments L: I-Leg-1-6: 160, 285, 225, 300, 285, 285; II-Leg-1-6: 200, 375, 275, 350, 475, 350;
III-Leg-1-6: 200, 360, 275, 600, 525, 335; IV-Leg-1-6: 360, 360, 325, 650, 510, 235.
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Fig. 13-15. Hydrachna kisselewi Sokolow, 1928, deutonymph: 13 - genital field, 14 - rosette acetabula, 15 - pedipalp. Scale bars: 13, 15 = 200 ^m, 14 = 50 ^m
Deutonymph. Similar to male, differing mainly in smaller size, external structure of genital field and pedipalp. Gonopore is absent, acetabular plates elongate oval with numerous minute acetabula and two to three thin, short setae (Fig. 13). In addition, each acetabular plate with rosette acetabula (Fig. 14) near posterior margin of plate. Pedipalp rather slender (Fig. 15): P-1 slightly longer than P-2, with single dorsodis-tal seta, P-2 with one mediodistal and five dorsal setae, P-3 thin, long with concave ventral margin proximally, but over most part of segment convex; dorsal margin straight or slightly concave, with one lateral and five dorsal setae; P-4 short, with strong dorsodistal claw, one mediodistal and two ventral setae.
Measurements (n=1). Coxal field L 875, anterior dorsal sclerites L 75, W 50; posterior dorsal sclerites
16 - chelicera, 17 - pedipalp, 18 - ejaculatory complex. Scale bars: 16 = 200 цш, 117-118 = 100 цш
L 125,W 55-75; genital plate L 305, W 200; capitulum L 1060, pedipalpal segments (P-1-5) L/H: 255/225, 245/175, 330/100, 130/60, 62/25; leg segments L: I-Leg-1-6: 125, 185, 140, 225, 235, 235; II-Leg-1-6: 140, 210, 160, 325, 350, 300; III-Leg-1-6: 150, 260, 160, 325, 350, 300; IV-Leg-1-6: 240, 275, 2 20, ?, ?, ?. Remarks. The present species is similar to Hydrachna processifera Koenike, 1903. It differs from H. processifera in the following characters (character states of the adults of H. processifera are given after [Sokolow, 1940; Lundblad, 1956; Davids et al., 2007] and are indicated in parenthesis): the dorsum without free sclerites, Fig. 4 (with two pairs of free minute sclerites), the pointed medial process inserted to the coxal plates IV, Fig. 5 (to the coxal plates III), the median eye absent, Fig. 4 (present), the capitulum slightly curved ventrally, Fig. 9 (well curved ventral-ly, Fig. 13); P-1 longer than P-2, Fig. 11 (P-1 shorter than P-2, Fig. 14), ejaculatory complex with rectangular proximal chamber, distal arms rather long without additional processes, Fig. 8 (with hemispherical proximal chamber, distal arms short with two processes each, Fig. 15).
The deutonymph of H. processifera is characterized by the following features: the subcutaneous medial process is inserted to the coxal plate III; the
acetabular plate with five to seven short, thin setae and without the rosette acetabula; the total number of setae on P-1-2: 3, 9 [Tuzovskij, 1990]. In contrast, in the deutonymph of H. kisselewi the subcutaneous medial process is inserted to the coxal plate IV (Fig. 13); the acetabular plate with two to three short, thin setae and with the rosette acetabula (Fig. 14); the total number of setae on P-1-2: 1, 6 (Fig. 15).
Thus, the morphology of male and deutonymph H. kisselewi well differs from that of H. processifera, and H. kisselewi should be considered as a full species.
Habitat. Standing waters. Distribution. Asia: Uzbekistan, Bukhara city [Sokolow 1928, 1940]; Europe, Russia (North Caucasus, Adygea).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author expresses sincere gratitude to V. Man-zhurina and Yu. Saprykina for supplying the material for this work.
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