Kleemannia pavida (C. L. Koch, 1839)

Masan, Peter, 2017, A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna, ZooKeys 704, pp. 1-228 : 1

Kleemannia pavida (C. L. Koch, 1839)

Plates 37B , 46 , 47

Zercon pavidus C. L. Koch, 1839: Fasc. 23: 15.

Seiulus plumosus . - Oudemans 1902: 17 (in part).

Hypoaspis pavidus . - Oudemans 1902: 19; Berlese 1904: 276.

Kleemannia pavidus . - Oudemans 1930: 137.

Ameroseius pavidus . - Westerboer and Bernhard 1963: 479; Karg 1971a: 233; Bregetova 1977: 155; Karg 1993: 230.

Ameroseius lanceosetis Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1975: 462. Syn. n.

Kleemannia pavida . - Evans and Till 1979: 230.

Ameroseius lanceosetis . - Ma 1996: 201; Hajizadeh et al. 2013a: 146.

Ameroseius (Kleemannia) lanceosetis . - Hajizadeh et al. 2013a: 151.

Ameroseius (Kleemannia) pavidus . - Hajizadeh et al. 2013a: 151.

Type depository.

Of Kleemannia pavida - not stated; of Ameroseius lanceosetis - Nikita Botanical Gardens, National Scientific Center, Yalta, Crimea, Russia (the type specimens not found and probably lost, based on personal communication from Alex Khaustov).

Type locality and habitat.

Of Kleemannia pavida - Germany, in unspecified substrate (in houses, especially stables, in hay and straw); of Ameroseius lanceosetis - Russia, Crimea, Alushtinskyi District, Privetnoye (as Privetnyi), in grain storage house.

Comparative material.

Germany: 1 ♀ (ZMB: 40282) - 25. 4. 1969, VAR, an Zwiebeln , mit Tyrophagus putrescentiae vergesell. (labelled Ameroseius gracilis ) ; 11 ♀♀ (ZMH: A41/73) - May 1973, Kassel, Neubau , leg. H. Kühne , det. G. Rack in 1973. Iran: 16 ♀♀ (IZSAV) - Guilan Province, rice storage, No. 1, leg and det. J. Hajizadeh (labelled Ameroseius lanceosetis ) . Netherlands: 1 ♀ (RMNH: ACA.P.4294) - June 1928, Hengelo (O.), in hooi afval, boerderij, leg. Dr. Baudet ; 1 ♀ (RMNH: ACA.P.4295) - Jan. 1927, Arnhem , in huis, leg. Oudemans ; 1 ♀ (RMNH: ACA.P.4296) - Aug. 1921, Wapenvelde bij Apeldoorn, in hooi afval, Wageningen ; 1 ♀ (RMNH: ACA.P.4297) - July 1896, Sneek , Vespertilio dasycneme , leg. Oudemans ; 1 ♀ (RMNH: ACA.P.4299) - July 1928, Ophovizolder, Franeker , Utrecht, leg. Dr. Baudet ; 3 ♀♀ (ZSM: Coll. Vitzthum / Kneissl V 597) - July 1928, Franeker / Friesland, in Heuabfällen, vom Heuboden ; 3 ♀♀ (ZMH: A74/74) - 1. 10. 1974, NL-Schayk, Kok, Crocidura russula , Zool. Lab. Nijmegen , det. G. Rack in 1974 . United Kingdom: 1 ♀ (BMNH: 1955.6.1.91) - 27. 8. 1954, London, Zool. Gardens , hay, det. J. G. Sheals (labelled Kleemania plumosus ) .

New material from Slovakia.

Podunajská Rovina Flatland: 1 ♀ - 31. 7. 1991, Šuľany Village, willow-poplar flood plain forest ( Salici-Populetum ), fresh cadaver of Clethrionomys glareolus ( Mammalia), altitude 120 m, leg. P. Mašán and J. Krištofík.

Remarks.

The Iranian specimens of this species, including those re-described under the name Ameroseius lanceosetis ( Hajizadeh et al. 2013a), are in good agreement with the mites widely collected in Europe, and now deposited in a collection of various museums (see comparative material above).

Figures

Plate 37. Kleemannia spp., female. A Kleemannia delicata, epistome B Kleemannia pavida, epistome C Kleemannia delicata, ventrianal shield.

Plate 46. Kleemannia pavida, female (from Germany), dorsal idiosoma.

Plate 47. Kleemannia pavida, female (from Germany), ventral idiosoma.