Opilioacarus segmentatus With, 1902

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 332-356 : 349

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scientific name	Opilioacarus segmentatus With, 1902
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7.5. Opilioacarus segmentatus With, 1902 View in CoL *

Eucarus segmentatus With 1904: 176–180 , plates IV–VI (redescription)

Opilioacarus segmentatus With 1902: 21 View in CoL (original description); Grandjean 1936: 419-437, figs. 1-5 (redescription); Beron 1990: 64-65 (diagnostic key, new distribution); Araújo et al. 2018: (new diagnosis)

Syntypes: 11 specimens fromALGERIA, M’Sila Province, Bou Saada.2M( ZMUC00046884 View Materials ), F( ZMUC00046885 View Materials ), 2 F ( ZMUC00046886 View Materials ), plus 2 specimens ( ZMUC00046887 View Materials ), in alcohol ; 3 specimens ( MNHN), “5551 E. Simon number”, in alcohol ; 1 specimen ( MNHN), on slide 1I11 .

Distribution: Bou Saada ( Algeria), Peloponeso, Corfu, Kassos, Karpathos and Rhodes ( Greece).

Notes: Despite the 30 specimens cited by With (1902), Grandjean (1936) indicates 12 specimens in the E. Simon collection, deposited at the MNHN (we checked 4 specimens). Besides, we found some of the type material deposited at ZMUC (we checked 7 specimens).

Etymology: Due the segmented idiosoma.