Ernogamasus aliitectatus ( Athias-Henriot, 1967 )

Witaliński, Wojciech & Fenďa, Peter, 2020, A new species of mite in the genus Ernogamasus Athias-Henriot, 1971 (Parasitiformes: Parasitidae), Zootaxa 4742 (3), pp. 501-517 : 509

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Ernogamasus aliitectatus ( Athias-Henriot, 1967)

( Figures 18–34 View FIGURE 18 View FIGURES 19–21 View FIGURE 26 View FIGURES 27–32 View FIGURES 33–34 )

Pergamasus aliitectatus Athias-Henriot, 1967: 176 .

Leptogamasus (Ernogamasus) aliitectatus . — Athias-Henriot 1971: 174.

Athias-Henriot described a male of the new species Pergamasus aliitectatus ( Athias-Henriot 1967) , and shortly afterwards she augmented the species with a description of a female ( Athias-Henriot 1970), provided additional data on the male ( Athias-Henriot 1971), and transferred the species to Leptogamasus (Ernogamasus) . Juvara-Bals (1974) also presented a complementary description of this species with drawings of leg II and Tr IV in the male, as well as the endogynium in the female.

We now provide some additional description and drawings to facilitate the identification of the species. Our material has been compared with the original material by Dr. I. Juvara-Bals, who did not find substantial differences, thus confirming the species as E. aliitectatus ( Athias-Henriot, 1967) . Additional description is required because E. aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot) may be confused with the two other similar species, i.e. Ernogamasus obesus ( Holzmann, 1969) and Ernogamasus acutus (Greim, 1969) , both described in Holzmann’s PhD dissertation (1955), and validly published in 1969. Ernogamasus obesus (Holzmann) , has been reported in several European localities: Poland — the Karkonosze Mts ( Gwiazdowicz & Biernacik 2000; Gwiazdowicz 2004; Gabryś et al. 2008) and the Stołowe Mts ( Kamczyc & Gwiazdowicz, 2009), Ireland ( Arroyo et al. 2008), Germany ( Karg 1993; Werner et al. 2012, 2018), Romania ( Stanescu 2007), but at least the material collected in Poland, re-examined by the author (WW), is evidently the E. aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot) rather than E. obesus (Holzmann) .

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Figures

FIGURE 18. Ernogamasus aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot, 1967), female. Dorsal idiosoma with podonotal (j, z, s, r) and opisthonotal (J, Z, S, R) setae series, idiosomal poroids (id) and gland pores (gd) marked.

FIGURES 19–21. Ernogamasus aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot, 1967), female. 19 paragynium; 20 endogynium in situ, covered ventrally by epigynial and paragynial shields. Sternal st3 and paragynial st4 setae, as well as poroids iv3 and gland pores gv1 are marked; 21 endogynium, another aspect; 22 gnathotectum; 23 chelicera antiaxially; 24 fixed digit of chelicera in other specimen; 25 trochanter IV with posteroventral tubercle.

FIGURE 26. Ernogamasus aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot, 1967), male. Dorsal idiosoma.Abbreviations as in Figure 18.

FIGURES 27–32. Ernogamasus aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot, 1967), male. 27 presternal plates, genital lamina and sternal shield.Abbreviations as in Figure 11; 28 presternal plates and genital lamina. Note the anterior margin of the genital lamina with two concavities accommodating tritosternum laciniae; 29 gnathotectum; 30 corniculus and hypostomatic setae; 31 chelicera adaxially; 32 trochanter IV with posteroventral tubercle.

FIGURES 33–34. Ernogamasus aliitectatus (Athias-Henriot, 1967), male. Femur, genu and tibia of leg II in two aspects: ventrally (33) and anterolaterally (34). Abbreviations as in Figure 16. Arrow on the anterolateral side.