Petrobia (Petrobia) pakistanensis Kamran & Alatawi 2025, sp. nov.

Petrobia (Petrobia) pakistanensis Kamran & Alatawi sp. nov. Materials Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-H; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 8B0FBB5F-8941-5BA7-B297-3E300A8842F4; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-P 1; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4EDE717B-64C6-58D4-A4E1-883A75981821; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-P 2; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E4BED139-7480-58C2-AEAF-502CB0507B02; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-P 3; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 9F29037F-B50F-5CEB-8DB4-F048FADCD2FF; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-P 4; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: AA115F81-79C9-5DE0-A75D-F2FA9A951D75; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-P 5; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 8B0C61C0-E8FE-5F44-9020-5F53EC4E0FC9; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS- 23 - Tet-Pet-P 6; recordedBy: M. Kamran; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C85739B4-02FA-56EF-B8EA-004161D2BCFC; Taxon: scientificName: Petrobia pakistanensis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Tetranychidae; genus: Petrobia; subgenus: Petrobia; Location: stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbotabad; verbatimElevation: 1,256 m; verbatimCoordinates: 34°08.427'N 73°17.135'E; decimalLatitude: 34.14046; decimalLongitude: 73.28559; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Muhammad Kamran; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: shaking plant foliage; eventDate: 15 / 7 / 2023; habitat: wild grasses; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen Description Female (n = 7). Length of body excluding gnathosoma (v 2 - h 1) 510 (505‒518), including gnathosoma 695 (690–710), width (c 3 - c 3) 410 (400‒517); length of legs (from trochanter to distal end of tarsus): leg I 444 (441‒454); leg II 303 (300‒314); leg III 334 (327‒340); leg IV 391 (382‒399); leg I / v 2 - h 1: 0.87 (0.85–0.87). Dorsum. (Fig. 1) Propodosomal shield well defined, punctate, two pairs of eyes; lateral propodosoma with longitudinal to oblique striations, opisthosomal striae transverse medially between setae c 1 - h 1, except sub-medially changing to inverted v-shaped striation pattern in-between e 2, dorsal striae fine without lobes and close (not so widely spaced). Dorsal setae lanceolate, slender serrate, without tubercles, shorter than the longitudinal distance between the setae next in line; lengths of dorsal setae v 2 42 (39‒45), sc 1 27 (26‒30), sc 2 18 (17‒20), c 1 17 (17‒18), c 2 17 (17‒18), c 3 18 (18‒19), d 1 14 (13‒14), d 2 15 (14‒15), e 1 15 (14‒16), e 2 23 (21‒24), f 1 33 (30‒34), f 2 33 (31‒33), h 1 30 (29‒31). Distances between dorsal setae v 2 - h 1 510 (505‒518), v 2 - v 2 70 (68‒71), sc 1 - sc 1 185 (171‒188), sc 2 - sc 2 285 (277‒295), c 1 - c 1 95 (92‒103), c 1 - c 2 64 (61‒65), d 1 - d 1 88 (82–90), d 1 - d 2 64 (59‒66), e 1 - e 1 85 (81–87), e 1 - e 2 54 (50‒57), f 1 - f 1 80 (77‒85), f 2 - f 2 70 (68‒76), f 1 - f 2 33 (33‒38), h 1 - h 1 35 (34–38), c 1 - d 1 77 (75‒81), d 1 - e 1 78 (76‒79), e 1 - f 1 82 (78‒86), f 2 - f 2 39 (38‒43), f 2 - h 1 49 (48‒53), f 1 - h 1 78 (75‒79). Venter (Fig. 2). Area between setae 1 a – 3 a with transverse striae, 3 a – 4 a with longitudinal striae, anterior of genito-anal area with longitudinal striae; striae on venter without lobe; lengths of setae: 1 a 31 (30‒33), 1 b 40 (39–43), 1 c 22 (21‒23), 2 b 25 (25‒27), 2 c 25 (23‒28), 3 a 32 (30‒35), 3 b 21 (20‒24), 4 a 28 (27‒31), 4 b 20 (19‒22), one pair of aggenital setae (ag) 31 (27‒31), two pairs of genital setae, g 1 43 (40‒45), g 2 26 (26‒27), and three pairs of anal setae (ps 1‒3), ps 1 20 (20‒21), ps 2 19 (18‒20), ps 3 21 (20‒21), h 2 18 (18‒19), h 3 17 (17‒18). Spermatheca elongated tubular (Fig. 2 b). Gnathosoma. Stylophore (Fig. 1 b) anteriorly without indentation, peritremes distally with long anastomosed ends, 47 (45‒48) long, 14 (13‒14) wide), ventral infracapitulum with one pair of adoral setae or 16 (15‒16) and one pair of subcapitular setae m 26 (25‒27). Palp five-segmented (Fig. 4), palptarsus with one solenidion ω 7 (5‒7), three eupathidia ul' ' ζ 8 (8‒10), ul' '' ζ 8 (7‒9), sul 9 (8‒11) and three simple setae a 13 (10‒13), b 12 (10‒13); c 11 (11‒12); palp tibia with three setae d 23 (19‒23), l' ' 16 (15‒18), l' 17 (16‒19) and one bifid claw distally, palp genu with one simple seta l' ' 28 (24‒28) and palp femur with one serrated seta d 34 (32‒36) (similar to dorsal setae). Legs (Fig. 3). Leg I (trochanter to distal end of empodial claw) shorter than length of idiosoma. Leg segment setal formula as follows: coxae 2-2 - 1 - 1; trochanters 1-1 - 1 - 1; femora 9-6 - 4 - 4; genua 5-5 - 4 - 4; tibiae 13 + 1 φ) - 9-9 - 9; tarsi 18 + 3 ω + 2 dup- 14 + 1 dup- 13 + 1 dup- 13 + 1 dup. Length of solenidia on tarsi I ‒ IV: Iω ' 1 32 (30‒34), Iω ' 67 (66‒70), Iω " 75 (74‒78), IIω ” 47 (45‒48), IIIω’ 45 (43‒46), IV ω’ 46 (45‒47) and tibia I with Iφ 1 26 (25‒26). Most leg setae narrowly lanceolate, barbed; setae at tips of tarsi slender, smooth. Empodia I – IV with true claws pad-like, empodial claws bearing two rows of ventrally directed hairs. Male and immature stages — Unknown. Diagnosis Propodosomal shield punctate; dorsal body setae lanceolate, barbed, short: setae c 1, d 1, e 1 not reaching beyond half-way between setal insertion and insertion in next row; tubercles absent, opisthosomal stri