The water mite subfamily Notoaturinae Besch has a typical Gondwanan distribution, with 9 genera in Australia, 3 genera in Chile, 2 genera in South Africa and one in East Africa (Cook 1986, 1988, 1998, Smit 2010). Remarkably, the genus is lacking in New Guinea and New Caledonia as both islands have a typical Australasian water mite fauna (Wiles 1997, Smit 2002, 2009, 2011, 2013). New Zealand has...