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You appear to be missing the point. You quoted a scientific paper where it would be necessary and required to state the sex of the mites to avoid ambiguity. The editors/peer reviewers would have asked for this if it had been omitted in the submission. What was written was ...
Yes, you do get asked to state the obvious (to you, the writer, and most of your readers)