Cunaxa grobleri den Heyer, 1979a

Heyer, Jacob den, Ueckermann, Edward A. & Khanjani, Mohammad, 2011, Iranian Cunaxidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea): Part 2. Subfamily Cunaxinae, Journal of Natural History 45 (27 - 28), pp. 1667-1678 : 1670-1673

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2011.559602
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scientific name	Cunaxa grobleri den Heyer, 1979a
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Cunaxa grobleri den Heyer, 1979a View in CoL

( Figure 3C–G View Figure 3 )

Cunaxa grobleri den Heyer 1979a, p.37 View in CoL ; den Heyer 1979b, p.159.

Material examined

One female, Sophora pachycarpa C.A. Mey. Melayer-zaman-Abad, 14 July 1997, M. Khanjani; one female collected under Medicago sativa L. ( Fabaceae ), Hamadan

(Abshineh), 15 September 1998, M. Khanjani; one female, from Glycyrrhiza glabra L. ( Fabaceae ), Tuiserkan, 19 January 1995, R. Soltani; one female, Sophora pachycarpa C. A. Mey. (Fabaceae) , Malayer-Zanzadeh, 15 July 1992, M. Khanjani; one female, G. glabra, Asad-Abad , 1 December 1993, M. Heidarian; one female, M. sativa, Songhor , 10 July 2000, M. Khanjani; one female, Phaseolus vulgaris L. ( Fabaceae ) Nahavand (Shahrak), 19 July 1992, M. Khanjani; one female, one male, soil, Jahrom, 13 August 2005, N. Khademi; one larva petals of Prunus sp. , Tehran, 30 April 2006, M. Kafi.

Diagnosis

den Heyer (1979a) gave a full description of this species. The Iranian material shows some geographical variations from that description as indicated below.

Female ( Figure 3C–E View Figure 3 ) (n = 8)

Dimensions. Idiosoma: length 322 (251–378); width 232 (192–257); hypognathum: length 154 (135–162); width 84 (73–95); palp length 185 (162–202); chelicera length 143 (135–162); length of leg: leg I 279 (257–297); leg II 253 (221–273); leg III 283 (259–297); leg IV 320 (284–351); sensillae length: vi 171 (162–189), sce 228 (197–257). Dorsum and venter show no obvious differences. Palpi differ only in very minor detail ( Figure 3C View Figure 3 , Iran). Legs: basifemur III with three sts; genu I with three asl (South African material possesses an additional alveolus lacking the usual solenidion); genua III and IV, each with one asl, four sts, one ms; st-setae on tarsi I–IV vary around 22 or 23 or 24–25 or 21–20 or 21 ( Figure 3D View Figure 3 , Iranian specimen: Figure 3E View Figure 3 , South African specimen).

Male ( Figure 3F,G View Figure 3 ) (n = 1)

Dimensions and description. Idiosoma: length 216; width 140; hypognathum: length 124; width 65; palp length 145; chelicera length 108; leg length: leg I 238–243; leg II 216–221; leg III 232–243.; leg IV 248–254; sensillae length: vi 157–160, sce 200–205. Palp of Iranian male depicted in Figure 3F View Figure 3 . Other obvious variations are: basifemur III with three sts while basifemur IV possesses one sts. Tarsal chaetotaxy I–IV is: (1 long bsl, 1 fmls, 1 sts), 3 asl, 1 dtsl, 2 tsl, 19 or 20 sts- 1 long bsl, 1 dtsl, 1 tsl, 21 or 22 sts- 1 tsl, 21 sts- 17 sts ( Figure 3G View Figure 3 , South African specimen).