Ameroseius ulmi 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 ulmi Hirschmann, 1963

Plate 28

Ameroseius ulmi Hirschmann (in Westerboer & Bernhard, 1963: 498).

Ameroseius ulmi . - Karg 1971a: 234; Bregetova 1977: 161; Karg 1993: 231; Nemati et al. 2013: 20; Narita et al. 2015: 395; Ma and Lin 2016: 15.

Type depository.

Not stated.

Type locality and habitat.

Germany, München, Englischer Garten, in gallery of bark beetle, Scolytus scolytus ( Coleoptera , Curculionidae ), on elm tree ( Ulmus sp.).

New material from Slovakia.

Malé Karpaty Mts.: 1 ♀ - 7. 4. 1995, Bratislava Capital , Železná Studienka Forest, broad-leaved deciduous forest, individual collecting on wood-destroying fungus ( Trametes sp.), altitude 350 m, leg. P. Mašán. Podunajská Rovina Flatland : 1 ♀ - 6. 10. 2012, Svaety Jur Town , Šúr Forest, forest steppe with oak ( Quercus sp.), unidentified decaying wood-destroying fungi on oak stem in soil detritus, altitude 130 m, leg. P. Mašán. Považský Inovec Mts. : 1 ♀ - 12. 7. 1997, Hradok Village , Hrádocká Dolina Valley, oak forest ( Quercetum ) with beech ( Fagus sylvatica ), individual collecting under bark, stones and pieces of wood, altitude 370 m, leg. P. Mašán ; 3 ♀♀ - 13. 10. 2012, Hradok Village , Hrádocká Dolina Valley, edge of broad-leaved deciduous forest, decaying wood-destroying fungi, altitude 290 m, leg. P. Mašán.

Remarks.

Hirschmann (in Westerboer and Bernhard, 1963) described and illustrated the opisthogastric surface of this species as having only five instead of six pairs of setae (JV4 were erroneously omitted).

Figures

Plate 28. Ameroseius ulmi, female, dorsal idiosoma.