Myrmozercon liguricus ( Vitzthum, 1930 )

Joharchi, Omid, Babaeian, Esmaeil & Seeman, Owen D., 2015, Review of the genus Myrmozercon Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae), with description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 3955 (4), pp. 549-560 : 557

Myrmozercon liguricus ( Vitzthum, 1930)

Myrmonyssus liguricus Vitzthum, 1930: 90 .

Diagnosis. Body length 540–580; dorsal shield truncate posteriorly, with approximately 31 pairs of setae; anterior pair (j1) of setae and posterior body setae longer than other body setae. Sternal shield an inverted U-shape; setae st4 absent. Genital shield with some lineate reticulation anterolaterally. Anal shield with short anterolateral extensions. Peritreme extending to mid-coxa II. Chelicerae with fixed digit obsolete. Legs short, leg I about half length of body. Host: Crematogaster scutellaris (Olivier) .

Remarks. This species is most similar to M. tauricus and is most easily distinguished by the fixed cheliceral digit (obsolete in M. liguricus , slightly reduced in M. tauricus ) and the form of the sternal shield (not eroded between st1-st 1 in M. liguricus , eroded between st1-st 1 in M. tauricus ).