An Introduction to the British Mesostigmata (Acarina) With Keys to Families and Genera.

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A new monotypic mite genus of the family Laelapidae, Persicolaelaps gen. nov., is described to accommodate a new species, P. hallidayi sp. nov., on the basis of adult female specimens collected from decaying wood, soil and litter in northern Iran, Golestan and Mazandaran provinces, respectively. The new genus can be distinguished from other members of the family by a combination of morphological attributes, some of which are unique or rarely observed in laelapids, such as (1) a series of small subrectangular sclerites flanking dorsally coxae I and gnathosomal base and adjoining podal plates anterolaterally, which are extending from and fused with sternal shield between coxae I and II; (2) an epigynal shield, so broad as to reach or even overlap acetabula III-IV, posteriorly axe-shaped; (3) metasternal setae absent; (4) a typical anal shield, though capturing pair of opisthogastric setae JV3; (5) gnathotectum triangular and acuminate; (6) the presence of six setae on trochanter IV; (7) genu IV with two ventral setae (occasional in Laelapidae); (8) internal malae with a series of thick, elongate filaments.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new genus and species of Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Iran

Kazemi

Beaulieu

2016

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“…90 known genera and over 1300 known species (Beaulieu et al, 2011), and has benefited from several studies that variously tackled its classification (e.g. Berlese, 1903Berlese, , 1916Vitzthum, 1940Vitzthum, -1943Evans, 1957;Tipton, 1960;Karg, 1965Karg, , 1979, 1979Casanueva, 1993;Radovsky & Gettinger, 1999;Dowling & OConnor, 2010). However, it remains quite unstable overall, with the family being possibly paraphyletic or polyphyletic (Dowling & OConnor, 2010) and many of its inclusive subfamilies and genera have uncertain, tentatively defined boundaries.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two new species of Gaeolaelaps (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Iran, with a revised generic concept and notes on significant morphological characters in the genus

Kazemi

Rajaei

Beaulieu

2014

Two new species of laelapid mites of the genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till are described based on adult females collected from soil and litter in Kerman Province, southeastern Iran, and Mazandaran Province, northern Iran. Gaeolaelaps jondishapouri Nemati & Kavianpour is redescribed based on the holotype and additional specimens collected in southeastern Iran. The concept of the genus is revised to incorporate some atypical characters of recently described species. Finally, some morphological attributes with potential to define natural species groupings as well as hypoaspidine genera are discussed, particularly idiosomal gland pores and poroids.

“…I searched all 40 volumes of Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde, from Volume 1 (1957( ) to Volume 40 (1993. I searched more than 400 other taxonomic and faunistic papers on Uropodina published since 1970, to locate further genus-group names.…”

Section: Methods and Conventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catalogue of genera and their type species in the mite Suborder Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Halliday¹

2015

This paper provides details of 300 genus-group names in the suborder Uropodina, including the superfamilies Microgynioidea, Thinozerconoidea, Uropodoidea, and Diarthrophalloidea. For each name, the information provided includes a reference to the original description of the genus, the type species and its method of designation, and details of nomenclatural and taxonomic anomalies where necessary. Twenty of these names are excluded from use because they are nomina nuda, junior homonyms, or objective junior synonyms. The remaining 280 available names appear to include a very high level of subjective synonymy, which will need to be resolved in a future comprehensive revision of the Uropodina.