Macrocheles insignitus Berlese, 1918

Özbek, Hasan Hüseyin, 2017, A review of the macrochelid mites of Turkey (Acari: Macrochelidae), with new records and descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4317 (3), pp. 559-572 : 569

Macrocheles insignitus Berlese, 1918

Macrocheles (Coprholaspis) insignitus Berlese, 1918: 158 .

Macrocheles insignitus .— Evans & Browning, 1956: 21; Filipponi & Pegazzano, 1963: 78; Bregetova, 1977: 355; Hyatt & Emberson, 1988: 113; Krantz & Whitaker, 1988: 236; Mašán, 2003: 116.

Macrocheles (Macrocheles) insignitus .— Karg, 1971: 134.

Specimens examined. 3 females, Turkey, Gümüşhane, Kirazalan WOld, 40° 43' N, 39°03' E, alt. 1426 m, 24 NOvember 2013, in dung.

Notes. This species is distributed in EurOpe, China, Siberia ( Mašán, 2003) and NOrth America ( Krantz & Whitaker, 1988), and is nOw recOrded in Turkey fOr the first time. It is very clOse tO M. merdarius , but separatiOn characters are very clear in the paper Of Mašán (2003). Its ventral shields as in Fig. 39 .

Figures

FIGURES 35 – 39. 35. Holostaspella bidentata, female, ventral spur of femur II; 36. Holostaspella bidentata, male, chelicerae. 37. Macrocheles peniculatus, female, dorsal shield; 38. Macrocheles peniculatus, female, ventral shields. 39. Macrocheles insignitus, female, ventral shields.