Four new species of the water mite genus Neumania Lebert are described from the Hanma National Nature Reserve, Genhe City, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Neumania (Neumania) vitrea Ding & Jin n. sp., based on male and female adults and distinguished by its transparent body; Neumania (Neumania) multiseta Ding & Jin n. sp., based on male and female adults and differentiated from related species by the numerous swimming setae on IV-Leg-4–5 of male; Neumania (Neumania) villosa Ding & Jin n. sp., based on adults of both sexes and deutonymphs, initially found both in running and standing waters and distinguished by a well sclerotized body and integument covered with dense fine spines; Neumania (Neumania) tumeroglandula Ding & Jin n. sp., also based on adults of both sexes and deutonymphs, and distinguished by its giant glands of the fourth pair of lateroglandularia.
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31 December 2019
Description of four new species of the genus Neumania Lebert, 1879 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Unionicolidae) from China
Zhuhui Ding,
Jianjun Guo,
Tianci Yi,
Daochao Jin
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Chinese fauna
deutonymph
Neumania
new species