Marantelophus kamalii Haitlinger, Ryszard, 2016

Haitlinger, Ryszard, 2016, New records of mites from Cyprus, Kos (Greece) and Sicily (Italy) with notes on some Erythraeidae and Trombidiidae (Trombidiformes, Parasitengona), Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2), pp. 1187-1196 : 1189-1190

M. kamalii (SABOORI & ATAMEHR 2000) nov. syn.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Sicily, 3 km south of Cesaro, 8 My 2014, 1 larva, from herbaceous plants ; leg. R. Haitlinger.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy (Sicily), Montenegro, San Marino, Ukraine.

This species was described as Hauptmannia iranica from Iran (HAITLINGER & SABOORI 1996). Later MĄKOL & WOHLTMANN (2012) this species transferred to the genus Abrolophus . Now, based on two palpgenual setae, is transferred to the genus Marantelophus . SABOORI & ATAMEHR (2000) described from Iran Hauptmannia kamalii . HAITLINGER (2011b) transferred this species, to the genus Marantelophus . Later M. kamalii was collected from Montenegro (HAITLINGER & ŠUNDIĆ 2014). Metric and meristic data for M. iranicus and M. kamalii are identical. Therefore, M. kamalii should be regarded as a synonym of M. iranicus . Corrected and new etric data for holotype of M. iranicus are given in Table 3.

Leg setal formula (holotype). Leg I: Ta badly visible, 1ω, 2ζ,?; Ti 2φ, 1κ,?12; Ge 1σ, 1κ, 9; Tf 8; Bf 5; Tr 2; Cx 1. Leg II: Ta 1ω, 2ζ, 22; Ti 2φ, 13; Ge 1σ, 1κ, 9; Tf 5; Bf 5; Tr 2; Cx 1. Leg III: Ta 1ζ, 19; Ti 1φ, 13; Ge 1σ, 9; Tf 5; Bf 5; Tr 2; Cx 1.

Specimens from Greece, Hungary, San Marino and Ukraine were determined as M. multisetosus (ZHANG & Goldarazena 1996) ( HAITLINGER 2006a, b, 2007, 2008) and 6 specimens from Montenegro as were determined as M. kamali i. In key by HAKIMITABAR et al. (2015) M. kamalii and M. multisetosus differ in number of normal setae on Ti III (13 M. kamalii vs. 11 M. multisetosus). In our collection 18 specimens have on Ti III 13 normal setae, 4specimens 12 setae and one specimen 11 setae. Based on this character and number of dorsal setae less than 160 setae specimens from over mentioned countries are included to M. iranicus . However, is problem with differentiate M. multisetosus with M. iranicus (Ti IIII with 12 setae). It should be explained in future.