Bdella farabii Paktinat-Saeej & Bagheri

Paktinat-Saeej, Saeed, Bagheri, Mohammad, Saboori, Alireza & Ahaniazad, Mansoureh, 2015, Two new Bdellidae (Trombidiformes: Bdelloidea) from Iran and the status of Neobiscirus Gomelauri, 1963, Zootaxa 4013 (4), pp. 519-530 : 524-526

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6094034

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scientific name

Bdella farabii Paktinat-Saeej & Bagheri
status

sp. nov.

Bdella farabii Paktinat-Saeej & Bagheri sp. nov.

( Figs. 18–30 View FIGURES 18 – 20 View FIGURES 21 – 23 View FIGURES 24 – 26 View FIGURES 27 – 30 )

Female (n =2): Dimensions: Length of body (including gnathosoma) 1150 (1025), width of body 638 (485), length of gnathosoma 263 (250), length of chelicera 245 (237); leg lengths: I 575 (570), II 555 (540), III 637 (612), IV 752 (732); VES 172 (174), DES 210 (202); palpomeres I–V: 18 (20), 140 (145), 35 (35), 22 (25), 75 (76); at 117 (122), lps 80 (78), pt 145 (158), mps 85 (82), c1 76 (75), c2 100 (93), d1 80 (80), e1 84 (77), f1 70 (67), f2 71 (70), h1 82 (76), h2 76 (65); distance: at–at 130 (121), pt–pt 136 (121), c1–c2 180 (115), c1–d1 125 (95). DHS 37 (34).

Gnathosoma ( Figs. 18–20 View FIGURES 18 – 20 ): Six pairs of ventral hypostomal setae longitudinally aligned (vh1–vh6) ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 18 – 20 ); hypostome terminates in two lateral lips, bearing two adoral setae ad1 9 (9), ad2 12 (13) and with sparsely longitudinal striations, which are transverse at base. Chelicera ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 18 – 20 ) with longitudinal striae and with two setae, distal seta 80 (76) longer than proximal seta 55 (52); movable and fixed digit smooth, straight and of same length. Palp ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 18 – 20 ) chaetotaxy: trochanter 0, basifemur 7sts, telofemur 1sts, genu 4sts, tibiotarsus 3sts, 1s, 2 long end setae (VES, DES).

Dorsum ( Figs. 21–23 View FIGURES 21 – 23 ): at and pt slender and nude ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 21 – 23 ). Center of prodorsum with continuous to sparsely broken longitudinal striations ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 21 – 23 ); two internal apodemes present ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 21 – 23 ); two pairs of eyes posterolateral to pt with transverse striae between each pair present. Setae lps closer to at than to pt. Dorsal striae of hysterosoma with continuous to sparsely broken striae ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 21 – 23 ); dorsal setae smooth to minutely barbed ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 21 – 23 ).

Venter ( Figs. 24–26 View FIGURES 24 – 26 ): Ventral setae nude ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 24 – 26 ); genital plates each with 9 setae longitudinally aligned; 10 aggenital setae present ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 24 – 26 ); anal valves with 3 pairs of smooth pseudanal setae (ps1–ps3), ps1 68 (62), ps2 51 (51), ps3 48 (45); with 1 pair of setae (v1) between coxae IV. Ovipositor ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 24 – 26 ) present and has 12 subapical and 6 medial setae.

Legs ( Figs. 27–30 View FIGURES 27 – 30 ): Leg chaetotaxy: coxae I–IV 6 (5)-5-6(7)-4sts; trochantera I–IV 1-1 -2-1sts; basifemora I– IV 8 (7)-7(8)-6(7)-3sts; telofemora I–IV 7-7 -8-7sts; genua I–IV 7 sts, 1duplex (dxs), 1asl- 8sts, 1duplex- 8sts, 1duplex- 8sts, 1duplex; tibiae I–IV 8 sts, 2asl, 1pe, 1T- 9sts, 1asl, 1bsl- 9sts, 1asl- 8sts, 1T; tarsi I–IV 27 (28)sts, 2asl, 2bsl, 1pe–26(25)sts, 2bsl–24sts, 1T–23sts, 1asl, 1T.

Male and Immature stages. Unknown

Remarks. Bdella farabii Paktinat-Saeej & Bagheri sp. nov. is similar to B. muscorum Ewing 1909 , B. kuznetsovi Maslov & Khaustov 2013 , and B. longistriata Atyeo 1960 . B. farabii sp. nov. is similar to B. muscorum in having duplex setae on genua I–III but can be distinguished by (1) tibiae I with two attenuated solenidia instead of four attenuated solenidia in B. muscorum ; (2) genua IV with duplex setae which is absent in B. muscorum ; (3) prodorsum with longitudinal striations instead of transverse striations in B. muscorum ; (4) tarsus II in new species lacks the peg; (5) internal apodemes in new species weakly developed vs. distinctly developed apodemes in B. muscorum . B. farabii sp. nov. resembles B. kuznetsovi in having weakly developed internal apodemes and longitudinal striations on prodorsum but can be distinguished by (1) genua I–IV with duplex setae which is absent in B. kuznetsovi ; (2) tibiae I with two attenuated solenidia and one peg vs. four attenuated solenidia and without peg in B. kuznetsovi ; (3) tarsus II in new species lacks the peg. B. farabii sp. nov. resembles B. longistriata in having longitudinal striations on the prodorsum and duplex setae on genua I– IV but it can be separated by (1) different palp chaetotaxy; (2) having 9 genital setae on each genital plate vs. 11 setae in B. longistriata ; (3) tarsus II in new species lacks the peg; (4) internal apodemes in the new species weakly developed vs. distinctly developed apodemes in B. longistriata .

Etymology. This species is named after“Abu Naṣr Muḥammad Farabi”(872 A.D–950 A.D), who was a Persian writer specializing in political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and logic.

Type material. Holotype female was collected from soil and rotten leaves under citrus trees, 30 October 2013, Saeej-Mahalleh village, Amol city, Mazandaran Province, Iran, by Saeed Paktinat-Saeej and one paratype female was collected from the soil and humus under apple trees, 25 September 2014, Azarshahr city, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran by Mansoureh Ahaniazad. The holotype female is deposited in the Acarological Collection, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran and one paratype female is deposited in the Acarological Collection, Acarological Society of Iran (ASI), Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Prostigmata

Family

Bdellidae

Genus

Bdella

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