Another mite species discovered via social media - Ameronothrus retweet sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida) from Japanese coasts, exhibiting an interesting sexual dimorphism

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Pfingstl, Tobias, Hiruta, Shimpei F., Bardel-Kahr, Iris, Obae, Yuito, Shimano, Satoshi (2022): Another mite species discovered via social media - Ameronothrus retweet sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida) from Japanese coasts, exhibiting an interesting sexual dimorphism. International Journal of Acarology 48 (4 - 5): 348-358, DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2022.2074538, URL: doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2022.2074538 ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The recent discovery of the oribatid mite Ameronothrus twitter via a social media platform resulted in a considerable media response and raised the awareness of the public for these tiny organisms.

As a direct consequence, another new marine associated ameronothroid species was now discovered via the same social media service. Moreover, the record of this new species, Ameronothrus retweet sp. n., represents the first report of an ameronothroid taxon from the Sea of Japan coast, indicating that this coastline was successfully colonized by these organisms and that further species could be present there. Ameronothrus retweet sp. n. shows an extraordinary sexual dimorphism with females having relatively shorter legs and a strongly folded notogastral integument.