Edbarellus tonganus Hattena tongana Hattena tonganus A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna Masan, Peter ZooKeys 2017 2017-09-29 704 1 228 B84ZP A47973A2-1FBB-54B4-8D20-171D3D920431 (Manson, 1974) Manson 1974 Manson 1974 Ameroseiidae Hattena treatment-meta Animalia Hattena tongana Mesostigmata 0 1 Arthropoda species tongana   Edbarellus tonganusManson, 1974: 116.  Hattena tongana. - Halliday 1997: 188.  Hattena tonganus. - Klimov et al. 2016.  Type depository. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Levin, New Zealand; United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., USA; Entomology Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Auckland, New Zealand.  Type locality and habitat. Pacific Ocean Region, Kingdom of Tonga, Tongatapu Island, in a hive of European honey bee,  Apis mellifera( Hymenoptera).  Remarks. I suspect this species to be a junior synonym of  Hattena panopla. Halliday (1997)reported many extreme similarities between  Hattena tonganaand  H. panopla, but he did not consider them to be conspecific. Differences in shape of sternal shields described by Halliday (1997)could be questionable due to the weak sclerotization of the sternal shield and its margins, characterstic of  Hattena. However, I adopted in this paper the interpretation of Halliday (1997), considering them distinct species.