Tenuipalpus granati Sayed 1946

Çobanoğlu, Sultan, Ueckermann, Edward Albert & Sağlam, Hayriye Didem, 2016, The Tenuipalpidae of Turkey, with a key to species (Acari: Trombidiformes), Zootaxa 4097 (2), pp. 151-186 : 177-178

Tenuipalpus granati Sayed 1946

( Figs 82–88)

Tenuipalpus granati Sayed 1946: 100 ; Wainstein 1960: 247; Livshitz & Mitrofanov 1967: 31; Meyer (Smith) 1979: 70. Tenuipalpus orchidarum Sayed 1942: 96 . Misidentification.

Diagnosis. Dorsum with irregular striae but almost smooth in the Turkish specimens, longitudinal laterally on opisthosoma, venter with mainly transverse striae. Dorsal opisthosomal setae c1, f2 present; setae d1 and e1 absent. Venter with two pairs of 4a setae. Spermatheca is a long, slender tube, terminating in small bulb.

Female. Dimensions: Length of body excluding gnathosoma 240–254; width 139–141, infracapitulum covered by anterior prodorsal projection; Legs: I 119–122; II 105–109; III 100–107; IV 105–108; setae: v2 6–7; sc 1 8–11; sc 2 30–35; c 1 8–13; c 3 10–18; d 3 8–10; e 3 11 –19; f 2 17–26; f 3 15–24; h1 122–147; h 2 14–19. Body oval.

Dorsum ( Fig. 82). Anterior prodorsal projection deeply notched medially forming pair of pointed lobes medially. Prodorsum with an angulate anterolateral margin, just anterior to setae sc 2; opisthosoma gradually narrowing posteriorly, with two large lateral pores. Prodorsum and opisthosoma with scattered longitudinal to diagonal striae. Dorsal body setae slender, lanceolate, and weakly serrate.

Venter ( Figs 83–84 ). Venter striate. Metapodosoma with one pair of 3a and two pairs of flagellate 4a. Striation pattern of ventral and genital shields mostly transverse, with some longitudinal striae laterad in genital region. Pair of aggenital setae slightly longer than two pairs of genital setae, reaching to or slightly passing bases of genital setae; two pairs of pseudanal setae. Ventral setae smooth. Genital setae transversely aligned. Spermatheca a long, slender tube; terminating in a small bulb.

Gnathosoma ( Fig. 85 ). Infracapitulum covered by anterior projection, reaching to middle of femur I. Palp three-segmented, tarsus with a eupathidium, seta on tibia with at least two serrations; distal segment almost half length of second segment.

Legs ( Figs 86–88 ). Setae and solenidia (included in counts) on segments of legs I–IV: coxae 2-2-1-1, trochanters 1-1-2-1, femora 4-4-2-1, genua 2-2-0-0, tibiae 5-5-3-3, and tarsi 9(ω)-9(ω)-5-5. Leg chaetotaxy as follows: trochanters I, II, IV v’; tr III l’, v ’; femora I-II d, v, bv”, l’; fe III d, ev ’; fe IV ev ’; genua I-II l’, l”; ge III-IV nude; tibiae I–II d, l’, l”, v’, v”; ti III–IV d, v’, v”; tarsus I–II u’, u”, p’, p” tc’, tc”, ft’, ft”, ω; ta III–IV u’, u”, tc’, tc”, ft’. Dorsal setae on femora I–III lanceolate and serrate, absent on genua I–II.

Material examined. 1 female from Vitis vinifera L. ( Vitaceae ), Salihli/Manisa, 10 September 1997, S. Çobanoğlu; 2 females from Vitis vinifera, Menemen Çavuşköy /Izmir, 04–05 September 1997, (Collector; S. Çobanoğlu. Deposited at University of Ankara).

Distribution. Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Ukraine ( Sayed 1946; Pritchard & Baker 1958; Wainstein 1960; Dosse 1971; Sadana & Gupta 1984; Hatzinikolis 1986a; Khanjani et al. 2013 b).

Figures

FIGURES 83 – 85. Tenuipalpus granati Sayed. Female. 83. Ventral view. 84 Spermatheca. 85. Palp.

FIGURES 86 – 88. Tenuipalpus granati Sayed. Female. 86. Leg I, left. 87. Leg III, left. 88. Leg IV, left.