Ameroseius benoiti 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

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scientific name	Ameroseius benoiti Elsen, 1973
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Ameroseius benoiti Elsen, 1973: 735.

Ameroseius benoiti . - 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), Katompi, Katanga, on carpenter bee, Xylocopa lepeletieri (as Mesotrichia lepeletieri ) ( Hymenoptera ).

Comparative material.

Democratic Republic of Congo: 1 ♀ (MRAC: 136509, holotype) - Oct. 1920, Katanga, Katompi , Mesotrichia lepeletieri , leg. Ch. Seydel ; 1 ♀ (MRAC: 142506, paratype) - Kasaï, Kondue , Chlorion ciliatum var. maxillae , leg. E. Luja ; 1 ♀ (MRAC: 170379, paratype; published as 142507) - Dec. 1932, Kapanga , Chlorion incomptum , leg. G. F. Overlaet ; 1 ♀ (MRAC: 142507, paratype) - Nov. 1932, Lulua, Kapanga , Chlorion ciliatum var. instabile , leg. G. F. Overlaet.

Remarks.

No fundamental differences could be found between the type specimens of the four species described by Elsen (1973), namely Ameroseius benoiti , Ameroseius gillardinae and Ameroseius longitarsis . These species were erected in my opinion on untenable characters. For example, I could not detect any of the illustrated structures of sperm induction system as they were presented in original figures 1-18 given by Elsen (1973).