Description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) from Iran, with a key to world species of the genus with short peritremes

Vatankhah, Farzaneh; Nemati, Alireza; Esfandiari, Mehdi; Shishehbor, Parviz

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.5.6

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“…To date, 20 species of Gaeolaelaps have been reported from Iran of which nine species (G. jondishapouri Nemati and Kavianpour; G. iranicus Kavianpour and Nemati; G. farajii Nemati and Mohseni; G. orbiculatus Nemati and Mohseni; G. mossadeghi Kavianpour and Nemati; G. khajooii Kazemi et al; G. ahangarani Kazemi and Beaulieu; G. lenis Vatankhah and Nemati; G. izajiensis Saeidi et al) were described as new for science (Nemati and Kavianpour 2013;Nemati and Mohseni 2013;Kavianpour et al 2013;Kazemi et al 2014;Kavianpour and Nemati 2014;Saeidi et al, 2016;Vatankhah et al 2016). The Mangrove or Hara Forests of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf, southern Iran, is a protected area that is dominantly covered by Avicennia marina.…”

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A new species and new record of Gaeolaelaps Evans and Till (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Iran

Khalesi

Kazemi

2018

Acarologia

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Herein, a new species of the hypoaspidine mite genus Gaeolaelaps, G. mirzakhaniae n. sp., is described on the basis of adult female and male specimens collected in soil and litter of citrus orchards in Kerman Province, southeastern Iran. Also, supplementary information for G. queenslandicus (Womersley) is presented. Moreover, Gaeolaelaps schusteri (Hirschmann) is reported for the first time from Iran on the basis of specimens collected in Mangrove forests of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf.

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A new species and new record of Gaeolaelaps Evans and Till (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Iran

Khalesi

Kazemi

2018

Acarologia

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“…The mite family Laelapidae includes hundreds of species that are free-living predators in soil, as well as many others that have varying degrees of association with other animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates (Faraji and Halliday 2009). The Genus Gaeolaelaps Evans and Till, 1966 is currently one of the largest genus of the family Laelapidae Berlese (Beaulieu 2009, Kazemi et al 2014, Vatankhah et al 2016. The known representatives of this genus are active predator of small invertebrates such as other mites, insect eggs and nematodes (Lindquist et al 2009).…”

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“…Beaulieu (2009) and Kazemi et al (2014) have studied the characteristics of the genus, which contains more than 100 species. In recent years, several species of this genus have been described, which seems to have increased the number of species to more than one hundred (Kavianpour et al 2013, Nemati and Mohseni 2013, Kavianpour and Nemati 2014, Kazemi et al 2014, Saeidi et al 2016, Vatankhah et al 2016. The systematic situation of some species of this genus is unclear.…”

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New data to the knowledge of Gaeolaelaps mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae)

2018

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The present paper is devoted to the study of some morphological changes in the laelapid genus Gaeolaelaps, based on observations on G. queenslandicus (Womersley, 1956), G. angustus (Karg, 1965) and G. tripodiger (Berlese, 1916) [new comb]. According to our observations on the type material of G. angustus, previous redescription of G. queenslandicus (sensu Costa 1966, based on holotype), specimens of this species from Australia and numerous specimens from Iran identified as either G. angustus or G. queenslandicus, notable variations were observed in some morphological characters, which had previously been considered as distinguishing features between the two species. Our analysis indicates that these morphological differences represent intraspecific variation, and therefore the two species names are synonyms. Furthermore, observation of type material of G. tripodiger shows that the two first mentioned species are junior synonyms of G. tripodiger. The original descriptions of G. trifurcatus (Wang and Li, 1965) [new comb.] and G. trifurcatoides (Yan and Ma, 1999) ([new comb.] show no authentic morphological difference from G. tripodiger and those are also junior synonyms of the later. The oldest available name for this species is Gaeolaelaps tripodiger. However, that name is almost unknown, and to use it as a valid name would cause taxonomic confusion. Therefore, we continue to use the widely known name Gaeolaelaps queenslandicus for this species, in the interests of stability.

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“…Twenty species of Gaeolaelaps have been reported from Iran of which nine were described as new for science (Nemati and Kavianpour 2013, Nemati and Mohseni 2013, Kavianpour et al 2013, Kazemi et al 2014, Kavianpour and Nemati 2014, Vatankhah et al 2016). It is noticeable that the majority of these species (seven species) have been collected from soil (Nemati and Kavianpour 2013, Nemati and Mohseni 2013, Kavianpour et al 2013, Kazemi et al 2014, Kavianpour and Nemati 2014), one species (Vatankhah et al 2016) has been described from the nest of Formica sp.…”

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“…It is noticeable that the majority of these species (seven species) have been collected from soil (Nemati and Kavianpour 2013, Nemati and Mohseni 2013, Kavianpour et al 2013, Kazemi et al 2014, Kavianpour and Nemati 2014), one species (Vatankhah et al 2016) has been described from the nest of Formica sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and one species from the body of a carabid beetle, Acinopus sp.…”

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confidence: 99%