Ameroseius longitrichus Hirschmann, 1963

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

Ameroseius longitrichus Hirschmann, 1963

Plates 22 , 23

Ameroseius longitrichus Hirschmann (in Westerboer & Bernhard, 1963: 530).

Ameroseius longitrichus . - Karg 1971a: 231; Bregetova 1977: 152; Kaczmarek and Michalski 1988: 101; Karg 1993: 229; Ma and Lin 2006: 241; Narita et al. 2015: 395.

Type depository.

Not stated (holotype not designated).

Type locality and habitat.

Germany (from several localities, in wood detritus of spruces and firs, and in galleries of various scolytine bark beetles).

Published material from Slovakia.

Podunajská Rovina Flatland: Šuľany Village (not Šurany Village as originally cited) ( Mašán 2001a).

New material from Slovakia.

Borská Nížina Lowland: 2 ♀♀ - 30. 3. 2002, Borsky Svaety Jur Village , edge of mixed forest ( Pinus sylvestris , Robinia pseudoacacia ), sandy soil and wood detritus from colony of Formica sp. ( Hymenoptera ) situated under pine stem, altitude 170 m, leg. P. Mašán ; 1 ♀ - 10. 4. 2004, Borsky Svaety Jur Village , Šaštínsky Les Forest, mixed forest ( Pinus sylvestris and Betula sp.), individual collecting under bark of fallen and dead birches, altitude 195 m, leg. P. Mašán ; 1 ♀ - 3. 4. 2005, Tomky Village , Šaštínsky Les Forest, pine forest, individual collecting under bark of old pines ( Pinus sylvestris ), altitude 180 m, leg. P. Mašán. Burda Hills : 1 ♀ - 9. 11. 1997, Kamenica Nad Hronom Village , Kováčovské Kopce-juh Forest, oak forest ( Quercetum cerris ), leaf litter and soil detritus, altitude 330 m, leg. P. Mašán. Malé Karpaty Mts. : 2 ♂♂ - 18. 6. 1997, Casta Village , Červený Kameň Castle, beech forest ( Fagion sylvaticae ) with oak ( Quercus sp.), individual collecting under bark, stones and pieces of wood, altitude 360 m, leg. P. Mašán ; 1 ♀ - 28. 7. 1997, Bratislava Capital , Železná Studienka Forest, broad-leaved deciduous forest, individual collecting under bark, stones and pieces of wood, altitude 380 m, leg. P. Mašán. Muránska Planina Plateau : 1 ♀ - 23. 6. 2003, Muran Village , Javorníková Dolina Valley, maple-beech forest ( Aceri-Fagetum ) with ash ( Fraxinus sp.), rocky canyon, on wood-destroying fungus ( Daedalea quercina ), altitude 500 m, leg. P. Mašán. Podunajská Rovina Flatland : 1 ♀ - 24. 4. 1997, Šuľany Village , willow-poplar flood plain forest ( Salici-Populetum ), individual collecting under bark of old poplar trunks, altitude 120 m, leg. P. Mašán. Trnavská Pahorkatina Wold : 1 ♀ - 18. 5. 1997, Brunovce Village , Váh River (alluvium), degraded willow-poplar flood-plain forest ( Salici-Populetum ), individual collecting on wood-destroying fungus Trametes sp., altitude 170 m, leg. P. Mašán. Zvolenská Kotlina Basin : 1 ♀ - 19. 8. 2014, Cacin Village , oak forest with Quercus cerris , on wood-destroying fungus ( Daedalea quercina ), altitude 420 m, leg. P. Mašán.

Remarks.

The female of Ameroseius longitrichus was originally illustrated by Hirschmann (in Westerboer and Bernhard 1963) as having only 28 pairs instead of 29 pairs of dorsal shield setae. My examination of the specimens from various parts of the North America, identified as A. longitrichus by Malcolm M. Furniss, Evert E. Lindquist, or John C. Moser, and published in part by Moser and Roton (1971), Furniss et al. (1972) and Moser (1975), has revealed that these specimens represents at least two species different from A. longitrichus , including Ameroseius peniophorae De Leon, 1964, previously described from Tennessee. These two species seem to be very similar to A. longitrichus , but can be distinguished by some characters of dorsal and leg chaetotaxy (in A. peniophorae , all legs are notably thickened and shortend, and femur I and genu I bear a robust and smooth seta on medial ventral surface).

Figures

Plate 22. Ameroseius longitrichus, female, dorsal idiosoma.

Plate 23. Ameroseius longitrichus, female. A Dorsal idiosoma with legs B Sternal and epigynal shield C Posterior dorsal shield D-E Anal shield, variant forms.