Ameroseius womersleyi, new name Ameroseius ornatus Womersley, 1956a: 547. Junior secondary homonym.

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Ameroseius womersleyi, new name Ameroseius ornatus Womersley, 1956a: 547. Junior secondary homonym.

Ameroseius ornatus . - Halliday 1997: 182; Kazemi and Rajaei 2013: 65; Nemati et al. 2013: 19. not Cornubia ornata Turk, 1943: 859. Synonymy with Ameroseius corbiculus (Sowerby, 1806) by Turk (1953).

Type depository.

South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.

Type locality and habitat.

Australia, Tasmania, from strawberry plants.

Comparative material.

Australia: 1 ♀ (SAMA: ARA73140 , holotype) - June 1952, Burnley, Victoria, on strawberry leaves ex Tasmania, det. H. Womersley.

Remarks.

Ameroseius ornatus Womersley, 1956 is a junior secondary homonym of Cornubia ornata Turk, 1943, Cornubia being a junior synonym of Ameroseius . Turk (1953) synonymised Cornubia ornata Turk, 1943, under Ameroseius corbiculus (Sowerby, 1806). Since C. ornata is the type species of Cornubia Turk, 1943, and A. corbiculus is the type species of Ameroseius Berlese, 1904, the above arrangement naturally follows. I hereby rename Ameroseius ornatus Womersley, 1956 Ameroseius womersleyi nom. n. in recognition of Herbert Womersley and his work on the taxonomy of the mites, including Ameroseiidae .

I examined the holotype female of this species and could detect the normal complement of 29 pairs of setae on dorsal shield (not stated in original description), including j1 which are missing in the holotype (together with a small part of vertex). In Ameroseius womersleyi , st3 are on soft integument, opisthogastric soft integument presumably has six pairs of setae (JV4 present), and fixed digit of chelicera possesses three well observable teeth on proximal masticatory area of which two proximal are slightly smaller and somewhat separate from the most distal tooth. The recent diagnosis given by Halliday (1997) does not require additional amendment.