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Ornithogastia merops Stekolnikov & Saboori & Shamsi & Hakimitabar 2019, comb. nov.

Description

Ornithogastia merops (Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970), comb. nov.

Guntherana (Ornithogastia) merops Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970: 775 (material), 781 (description), fig. 13.

Diagnosis. SIF = 5B-N-3-2111.4300; fPp = B/B/NNB; fsp = 7.7.7; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.4; fSc: AL> PL> AM; fD = 2H-[4-4-2]-8-8- 10-2-4-2; DS = 46; VS = 48; NDV = 94; Ip = 894; eyes 2 + 2; f 1 anterior to S 1; f 2 at level of apically slightly inflated S 2; 4 basally ciliated mastitarsalae and 3 basally ciliated mastitibialae. Measurements of holotype (Vercammen-Grandjean et al. 1970): AW 49, PW 72, SB 20, ASB 25, PSB 24, SD 49, AP 36, AM 49, AL 64, PL 54, S 34, H 54, D min 30, D max 50, V min 26, V max 38, pa 304, pm 274, pp 316, Ip 894.

Type material examined. Holotype larva (IUMS) from Merops apiaster, Mashhad, 12 May 1967, coll. C.J. Rohde.

Host. Merops apiaster.

Distribution. Iran (Mashhad).

Remarks. Described from a single specimen. Following Kudryashova (1998), we regard Ornithogastia Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 as a separate genus and thus exclude Ornithogastia merops from the genus Guntherana Womersley, 1939.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., Saboori, Alireza, Shamsi, Mohsen & Hakimitabar, Masoud, 2019, Chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Iran, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4549 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4549.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2584949

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AM , IUMS , NDV , PL , PL, AM , PW
Event date
1967-05-12 , 2010-02-02
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Ornithogastia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AM 49 , PL 54 , PW 72
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stekolnikov & Saboori & Shamsi & Hakimitabar
Species
merops
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1967-05-12 , 2010-02-02/04
Taxonomic concept label
Ornithogastia merops (Vercammen-Grandjean, 1970) sec. Stekolnikov, Saboori, Shamsi & Hakimitabar, 2019

References

  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H., Rohde, C. J. & Mesghali, H. (1970) Twenty larval Trombiculidae (Acarina) from Iran. Journal of Parasitology, 56, 773 - 806. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3277727
  • Kudryashova, N. I. (1998) Chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 342 pp. [in Russian]