Ameroseius corbiculus (Sowerby)

Joharchi, Omid, Issakova, Aigerim K., Asyamova, Olga S., Sarcheshmeh, Mohammadhassan Abbasi & Tolstikov, Andrei V., 2020, Some soil-inhabiting mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Kazakhstan, with description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Acari: Laelapidae), Zootaxa 4819 (3), pp. 473-498 : 474

Ameroseius corbiculus (Sowerby)

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Acarus corbicula Sowerby, 1806 : Tab. 66/14.

Ameroseius corbiculus .— Karg, 1971: 233; Karg, 1993: 230; Kontschán, 2007: 100; Kazemi & Rajaei, 2013: 64; KhalilI–Mogh-adam & Saboori, 2014: 674; Kontschán et al., 2016: 135; Mašán, 2017: 30 .

Ameroseius (Ameroseius) corbiculus .— Hajizadeh et al., 2013: 150.

Ameroseius crassisetosus Ye & Ma, 1993: 86 (synonymy by Mašán, 2017).

Ameroseius qinghaiensis Li & Yang, 2000: 65 (synonymy by Mašán, 2017).

Ameroseius norvegicus Narita, Abduch & Moraes (in Narita et al., 2015: 391) (synonymy by Mašán, 2017).

Specimens examined. Five females, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan, 53°15ʹN, 66°29ʹE, 5 October 2019, A.K. Is-sakova coll., from soil (in TSUMZ) .

Remarks. The most recent taxonomic work on the family was by Mašán (2017), who comprehensively revised the generic concepts and morphological attributes of this family. A. corbiculus was described from British Isles in moss ( Sowerby, 1806), and has been recorded from Europe, England and China ( Mašán, 2017). It is now recorded in Kazakhstan for the first time, from soil. Mašán (2017) designated a lectotype of A. corbiculus , and synonymised Ameroseius norvegicus with A. corbiculus . Our specimens agree very well with the description given by Narita et al. (2015) (for A. norvegicus ), also with modifications presented by Mašán (2017) for this species. Ameroseius corbiculus is easily recognised by the 29 pairs of stout and robust setae, long enough to reach the base of the next posterior setae, seta j1 flat, broad and serrate ( Fig. 1 ) and five pairs of setae on the opisthogastric soft integument (JV4 absent) ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1–2. DIC micrographs of Ameroseius corbiculus (Sowerby, 1806), female. 1, idiosoma in dorsal view, enlarged section of setae J1 not to scale; 2, idiosoma in ventral view.