While I wonder if this water mite, could be a Sperchon setiger, here are some informations and illustrations collected on internet and in my books.
Sig Thor.
See the plates below.
Soar & Williamson 1925
Female body of Sperchon setiger.
- Length about 1.2mm
- Breadth about 0.92mm
- Colour straw-yellow to reddish-yellow.
- Legs and epimera sometimes of a greyish-green tint.
- XXX … (to continue – work in progress)
Smit & Gerecke 2010 – presence in France.
Sperchon setiger has been reported from the french departement of Corsica, Isère, Pas-de-Calais, Savoie, Tarn.
The synonymous indicated is Sperchon meridianus.
Piersig 1901. Description in German.
Page 161.
German text.
Female : Rumpf eiförmig, ohne Abstumpfung und Vorderrande. Integument netzartig gefeldert…
Attempt to translate into English.
Etymology
Sperchon :
- Setiger : a latin name which mean « which bear bristles ».
References
- Sig Thor (1899). Norges Hydrachnider III. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab XXI. Planche VIII. Downloadable with Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Piersig, R. (1901). Hydrachnidae und Halacaridae. Das Tierreich. P161.
- Smit, H. & Gerecke, R. (2010): A cheklist of the water mites of France (acari: hydrachnidia). Acarologia 50(1): 21-91.
- Soar, C. & Williamson, W. (1925): The British hydracarina. Ray Society. Volume I. Pages 120-122. Plate XII.
Plates VIII in Sig Thor.
Fig 82 &84 Sperchon setiger dorsal and ventral female
Fig 85: Sperchon setiger epimera male
Fig 83: Sperchon setiger palp and rostrum female
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