Neoatractides (Allotorrenticola) tashiwangmoi Pesic, Smit & Gurung 2022
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Smit, Harry
name: Sharma, Neha
name: Bahuguna, Pankaj
name: Rayal, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Torrenticolidae
Neoatractides
Neoatractides tashiwangmoi

description: Neoatractides (Allotorrenticola) tashiwangmoi Pešić, Smit & Gurung, 2022   
Fig. 1  
 Material examined — India, Uttarakhand State, 30°23'56.166"N, 78°8'0.2184"E, spring fed- Sahastradhara stream, 16 Oct. 2020, leg. Neha Sharma, 1♂ dissected and slide mounted (RMNH).   
 Description. Male — Idiosoma oval; dorsal shield without a colour pattern; area of primary sclerotization of the dorsal plate with four dorsoglandularia; gnathosomal bay U-shaped, proximally rounded; Cxgl–4 anterior to Cxgl-2 and located adjacent to II-Leg insertion; medial suture line of Cx-II+III relatively short; suture lines of Cx-IV distinctly extending posteriorly beyond posterior margin of genital field; excretory pore and Vgl–2 close to the line of primary sclerotization, excretory pore on the level of Vgl–2; gnathosoma with a slightly curved ventral margin, rostrum relatively slender (Fig. 1C), cheliceral claw very large; P-2 proportionally very long; ventral margin of P-2 and P-3 each with a moderately long seta, but without developed projections; P-4 and P-5 proportionally very short (Figs. 1 D-E).   
 Measurements — Idiosoma (ventral view: Fig. 1B) L 595, W 445; dorsal shield (Fig. 1A) L 484, W 359, L/W ratio 1.35; dorsal plate L 453; shoulder plate L 144, W 52-56, L/W ratio 1.6-2.8; frontal plate L 117-120, W 42-44, L/W ratio 2.7-2.9; shoulder/frontal plate L 1.2-1.23. Gnathosomal bay L 83, Cx-I total L 228, Cx-I mL 145, Cx-II+III mL 68; ratio Cx-I L/Cx-II+III mL 3.35; Cx-I mL/Cx-II+III mL 2.1. Genital field L/W 125/103, ratio 1.21; distance genital field-excretory pore 130, genital field-caudal idiosoma margin 172. Ejaculatory complex L 177. Gnathosoma vL 291, chelicera L 308; dL/H, dL/H ratio: P-1, 27/43, 0.62; P-2, 70/31, 2.3; P-3, 30/23, 1.28; P-4, 19/19, 1.0; P-5, 15/16, 0.94; L ratio P-2/P-4 3.7. dL of I-L-5-6: 75, 92; I-L-6 H 38; dL/H I-L-6 ratio 2.5.   
 Remarks — The male from Uttarakhand generally matches the description of Neoatractides tashiwangmoi, a species described on basis of a single female collected in a stream in Bhutan at an altitude of 539 m (Pešić et al. 2022a). In India, a single male was collected in a sandy/bouldary stream (Fig. 2) at an altitude of 908 m together with Sperchon gracilipalpis Lundblad, 1941, and three other torrenticolid species, i.e., Monatractides cf. oxystomus (K. Viets, 1945), Torrenticola kumari Pešić & Smit, 2020 and Torrenticola birmana (Lundblad, 1941) (see Pešić et al. 2022b in press).
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Smit, Harry, Sharma, Neha, Bahuguna, Pankaj & Rayal, Rajesh, 2022, First description of the male of Neoatractides tashiwangmoi Pešić, Smit & Gurung, 2022 from the Indian Himalayas (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae), pp. 32-36 in Ecologica Montenegrina 57 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.57.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13241313