Onchodellus squamosus (Koroleva, 1977)

Pachylaelaps squamosus Koroleva, 1977a: 134 .

Pachylaelaps squamosus .— Koroleva, 1977b: 444.

Onchodellus squamosus .— Mašán, 2007: 111; Mašán & Halliday, 2014: 20.

Using the identification key prepared by Mašán (2007), this species was identified and reported by Mojahed et al. (2017), because all key morphological characteristics fitted O. squamosus . Mašán (January 2017, personal communications) informed the senior author (AA) that this specimen should be conspecific with that species which was identified and illustrated as O. siculus by Koroleva (1977a), then listed as a misidentification by Mašán & Halliday (2014). Therefore, it represents an undescribed species. By this reason, O. squamosus was removed from the acarofauna of Iran.