Australiobates cekalovici Besch 1964

• Main Author: Smit, Harry
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2002
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Trombidiformes; Hygrobatidae; Australiobates; Australiobates cekalovici; Argentina; Chubut; Magallanes; Ushuaia; Besch; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6277215; https://zenodo.org/record/6277215

Australiobates cekalovici Besch, 1964 Australiobates cekalovici Besch, 1964: 128; Cekalovic 1976: 41; Cook 1988: 66. Material examined Neuquén Province: 4 males, 1 female, Río Chimehuín, west of Junín de los Andes, 13 November 1999. Chubut Province: 4 males, 4 females, Río Tecka, 30 km north of Tecka, 21 November 1999. Tierra del Fuego Province: 4 males, 5 females, 5 nymphs, Río Olivia, east of Ushuaia, 29 November 1999; 1 female, Río Turbio at Tolhuin, 1 December 1999. Remarks The maximum measurements of the female of this study are 1387 in length and 1246 in width, of the male 632 in length and 518 in width. Australiobates cekalovici is a widespread species, reported previously from Río Negro Province in Argentina to southern Chile. : Published as part of Smit, Harry, 2002, Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 103 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156012 : {"references": ["Besch, W. (1964) Systematik und Verbreitung der sudamerikanischen rheophilen Hydrachnellen. Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna, 3, 77 - 194.", "Cekalovic, K. T. (1976) Catalogo de los Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari, Araneae y Solifugae de la XII region de Chile, Magallanes incluyendo la Antarctica chilena (Chile). Gayana (Zool.), 37, 1 - 108. [cited in: K. O. Viets 1982, 1988]", "Cook, D. R. (1988) Water mites from Chile. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 42, 1 - 356."]}