Trachycilliba abantica (Bal & Oezkan , 2007)

Kazemi, Shahrooz & Abolghasemi, Somayeh, 2016, New species and records of Uropodina mites from Iran (Acari, Mesostigmata), ZooKeys 600, pp. 25-34 : 31

Taxon classification Animalia Mesostigmata Trematuridae

Trachycilliba abantica (Bal & Oezkan, 2007)

Uropoda abantica Bal & Özkan, 2007: 43.

Neodiscopoma abantica .- Kontschán, 2013: 118.

Trachycilliba abantica .-new combination.

Studied materials.

One female and one male specimens from soil and litter in the Ecological Garden of Nowshahr (51°57'50"N; 40°55'74"E), Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, altitude 30 m a.s.l., 10 June 2014, deposited in ACISTE.

Note.

Bal and Özkan (2007) described this species as a member of Uropoda Latreille, 1808 sensu lato from Turkey. Kontschán (2013) reported it from Greece, and he transferred it to the genus Neodiscopoma Vitzthum, 1942, based on the species morphological characters, such as a dorsal shield with a strongly sclerotized median region elevated from other parts; and posteromarginal setae inserted on separate, individual platelets. The genera Neodiscopoma and Trachycilliba have a same type species, Uropoda splendida Kramer, 1882, therefore we placed the species within Trachycilliba . Herein, we report Trachycilliba abantica from the Ecological Garden of Nowshahr in northern Iran near the Caspian Sea. This represents the third report of this species in the world.