Valgothrombium andreae

Mąkol, Joanna & Łaydanowicz, Joanna, 2010, A new species of Valgothrombium Willmann, 1940, with additional taxonomic data for Valgothrombiinae genera known as larvae (Acari: Prostigmata: Microtrombidiidae), Zootaxa 2647, pp. 16-34 : 27-28

andreae (Saboori, Ueckermann & van Harten, 2007), comb. nov. [LV]

Boletitrombium andreae Saboori, Ueckermann & van Harten, 2007: 163.

Distribution. Yemen.

Remarks. With respect to the shape of scutum and scutellum ( Fig. 18 ), the species is the most similar to V. mallorcensis and V. n a t a n i, however the other characters, especially the length of dorsal setae, point to its separate identity. Granular cuticular structures are present on idiosoma dorsum.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 18. Scutum and scutellum in larvae of Valgothrombium spp. (setae omitted, actual distance between sclerites not retained). 7. V. valgum (George, 1909) (redrawn after Wohltmann and Wendt 1996). 8. V. m a r i a e sp. nov. 9. V. tarnavense (Feider, 1950) (redrawn after Feider 1955). 10. V. stuarti Baker, 1999 (redrawn after Baker 1999). 11. V. melindae Haitlinger, 2008 (orig., based on holotype). 12. V. natani Haitlinger, 2005 (orig., based on holotype). 13. V. paroense Haitlinger, 2009 (orig., based on holotype). 14. V. a v a e Haitlinger, 2005 (orig., based on holotype). 15. V. mallorcensis (Haitlinger, 2003) (orig., based on holotype). 16. V. fluminis (Michener, 1946) (redrawn after Michener 1946). 17. V. spasiscutum Robaux, 1974 (redrawn after Robaux 1974). 18. V. andreae (Saboori, Ueckermann & van Harten, 2007) (redrawn after Saboori et al. 2007).