Several Limnochares australica specimens collected in West Australia by Harry Smit in 1994. These specimens are not part of the Naturalis collection and stored in the Western Australian Museum in Perth.
The Hydrachnidia collection of Naturalis is included in the dataset "Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL) - Chelicerata and Myriapoda" (https://doi.org/10.15468/63lozv).
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