Ameroseius longitarsis Elsen, 1973

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:111A101E-7405-4C40-8F51-693957A64D97

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A9B44C61-8934-3BFC-75A0-00436CA01B03

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scientific name

Ameroseius longitarsis Elsen, 1973
status

 

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Ameroseius longitarsis Elsen, 1973: 743.

Ameroseius longitarsis . - Narita et al. 2015: 396.

Type depository.

Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren Belgium.

Type locality and habitat.

Democratic Republic of Congo (as Zaire), Ganda Sundi, Mayumbe, on fungus weevil, Mecocerus rhombeus ( Coleoptera , Anthribidae ).

Comparative material.

Democratic Republic of Congo: 1 ♀ (MRAC: 142498, holotype) - 11. 2. 1970, Ganda Sundi, Mecocerus rhombeus , leg. P. Elsen.

Remarks.

Given that the characteristics of the type specimen of Ameroseius longitarsis are within the range of variability found in Ameroseius benoiti Elsen, 1973, I suspect A. longitarsis to be a synonym of A. benoiti .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Ameroseiidae

Genus

Ameroseius

Loc

Ameroseius longitarsis Elsen, 1973

Masan, Peter 2017
2017
Loc

Ameroseius longitarsis

Elsen 1973
1973
Loc

Ameroseius longitarsis

Elsen 1973
1973