Pseudoleptus avicennai Mahdavi & Kazemi, 2023

Mahdavi, Sayed Mosayeb, Kazemi, Shahrooz, Mohammad-Doustaresharaf, Mojtaba & Asadi, Mahdieh, 2023, A new mite species of Pseudoleptus Bruyant (Tenuipalpidae), and two new records (Tetranychidae, Linotetranidae) reported from the Caspian Sea coasts in Iran, Zootaxa 5360 (3), pp. 419-428 : 421

Pseudoleptus avicennai Mahdavi & Kazemi sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype female and 2 paratype females, ex. Cynodon dactylon L. ( Poaceae ), Miankaleh Peninsula, Mazandaran Province, Iran, 36° 49′ 59′′ N, 53° 30′ 07′′ E; 15 April 2021, coll. F. Pazhum.

Type deposition. Holotype female and one paratype female were deposited at SBUK, and one paratype female deposited at JAZM.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Pseudoleptus avicennai sp. nov. (female). Dorsum, habitus. Scale bars = 50 µm.

FIGURE 2. Pseudoleptus avicennai sp. nov. (female). Dorsum. Scale bars = 50 µm.

FIGURE 3. Pseudoleptus avicennai sp. nov. (female). (a) Ventral idiosoma; (b) Subcapitulum and Palp; (c) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 50 µm (a), 25 µm (b–c).

FIGURE 4. Pseudoleptus avicennai sp. nov. (female). (a) Leg I; (b) Leg II; (c) Leg III; (d) Leg IV. Scale bars = 20 µm.