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Show 90 HAROLD J, HIGGINS Vol. XXII, Nos. 1-3 Oct, 15, 1962 NEw SPECIES OF EREMAEUS 91 structures and setae as shown in figure 2; genital aperture oval in outline, surrounded by a sclerotized ring formed by apodermata IV; each genital cover with six unequally placed setae along its median edge; anal opening egg-shaped and separated from genital opening by less than one-half length of genital cover, a sclerotized ring surrounding anal covers which terminates in a point at posterior end, each anal cover with five sub-equally spaced setae along median edge; preanal piece large and extended about one-half the distancer to genital opening; four pairs of adanal setae, ad1 and adz posterio to anal covers, ad3 at postero-lateral edge of anal plate, and ad4 near anteriior level of anal opening. Entire ventral surface and legs deeply pitte . Leg I longer than leg II, but Shorter than leg IV, all tarsi shorter ; than their tibia; femur of le 1 extending forward to end of rostrumof femur the largest; the being claw legs heterotridactylous, mid le all legs with a heavy, roughened. double, ventral keel. Leg I shown in figure 4; leg IV shown in figure 5. Total length, 636 ,u, hysterosoma, 450 ,u; width of hysterosoma, 360 ,u. The holotype and six paratypes are from Farmington Canyon, Davis County, Utah, 2 August 1956 by J. R. Higgins. Additional specimens are as follows: , UTAH: 1 specimen frOm Lambs Canyon, Salt Lake County tional Recrea s Spruce from en specim 1 ; 3 October 1954 by S. Mulaik same Area, Salt Lake County, 5 June 1957, and 1 specimen from the area 11 July 1957 by H. Higgins; 1 specimen from Diamond Fork Canyon, Utah County, 17 June 1956 by H. Higgins. WASHINGTON: 2 specimens from Cle Elum, 19 August 1956 by 22 H. and M. Higgins; 1 specimen from lichens at Neah Bay, . Higgins M_ and H. August 1956, by REMARKS: This species of mite is more deeply itted than yany of known species of Eremaeus. It appears to live in a arge variet ngton Farmi from ens habitats in a wide range of elevations. Specim litter Canyon and the Spruces Recreational Area were taken from 7,000 above ions elevat at tion associa n r-aspe under a mixed conife d feet. The specimens from Cle Elum were taken from a moss covere found was Bay Neah from en log under Douglas fir while the specim in lichens on a standing tree at sea level. REFERENCES 2, ventral aspect; 3, pseudoFigs. 1-5. Eremaeus sliktos: 1, dorsal aspect; aspect; 5, leg IV, from dorsal from I leg 4, organ; c tigmati pseudos and a Stigmat lateral aspect. Banks, N. 1896. New North American Spiders and Mites. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 23:57-77. . 1947. On Some Acarina from North Carolina Psyche 54(2):110-141. State Ewing, H. E. 1909. The Oribatoidea of Illinois. Bull. Ill. 9. 337-38 7(10): Hist. Nat. Lab. |
