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Onchodellus alpinus

  • 1. . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran; E-mails: samaneh. mojahed @ yahoo. com, hajizadeh @ guilan. ac. ir, Rhosseini @ guilan. ac. ir
  • 2. . Department of Entomology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; E-mails: ali. ahadiyat @ hotmail. com & a. ahadiyat @ srbiau. ac. ir

Description

Onchodellus alpinus (Willmann, 1953)

Diagnosis

Female with dorsal shield middle-sized, 580 long, 420 wide (length/width ratio: 1.38), oval, wellreticulated. Dorsal shield setae J1–2 65, J3–4 68, J5 33 long (J4 / J5 ratio: 2.06). Posterolateral margins of dorsal shield with one pair of slit-shaped gland pores (gdS4) close to seta S4, glands gdZ1 circular. Sternal shield 164 long, 100 wide (length/width ratio: 1.64), well reticulated. Genitiventral shield 200 long, 216 wide (length/width ratio: 0.92), reticulate-lineate. Anal shield subtriangular, smooth, 64 long, 100 wide (length/width ratio: 0.64). Soft lateral and opisthogastric integument bearing 12 pairs of smooth setae. Tarsus II with one spur-like distal seta. Sperm access system with a spermathecal tube long and sac-like basally.

Material examined – 1 female, Saravan forest, from soil under pine tree, 14 June 2016.

Distribution and habitats in Iran – This species was firstly recorded in honey bee hives from Tehran province (Region not mentioned) (Rahmani et al. 2006).

World distribution – European countries (e.g. Central Europe, Alps area, Austria, Finland and Slovakia) (Karg 1993; Mašán 2007; Mašán and Mihál 2009; Mašán and Halliday 2014a; Huhta 2016).

Note – This is the first record of this species in Guilan province.

Notes

Published as part of Mojahed, Samaneh, Hajizadeh, Jalil, Hosseini, Reza & Ahadiyat, Ali, 2017, Contribution to the Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) fauna in some parts of Guilan province of Iran, pp. 269-285 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (4) on page 273, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i4.29712, http://zenodo.org/record/7174046

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2016-06-14
Verbatim event date
2016-06-14
Scientific name authorship
Willmann
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Pachylaelapidae
Genus
Onchodellus
Species
alpinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Onchodellus alpinus (Willmann, 1953) sec. Mojahed, Hajizadeh, Hosseini & Ahadiyat, 2017

References

  • Rahmani, H., Kamali, K., Saboori, A. & Nowzari, J. (2006) Mites of the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) hives in Tehran province (Iran). 17 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, Vol. 1, Pests. University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. p. 195.
  • Karg, W. (1993) Acari (Acarina), Milben. Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta). Cohors Gamasina Leach. Raubmilben. 2. Uberarbeitete Auflage. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, 59: 1 - 523 (In German).
  • Masan, P. (2007) A review of the family Pachylaelapidae in Slovakia, with systematic and ecology of European species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Eviphidoidea). Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 247 pp.
  • Masan, P. & Mihal, I. (2009) Arachnids of the Cerova vrchovina highland (Arachnida: Araneae, Pesudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari). Statna ochrana prirody SR (Banska Bystrica) - Sprava CHKO Cerova vrchovina (Rimavska Sobota), Ustav zoologie SAV (Bratislava) - Ustav ekologie lesa SAV (Zvolen). 311 pp. (In Slovak).
  • Masan, P. & Halliday, B. (2014 a) Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa, 3776 (1): 1 - 66.
  • Huhta, V. (2016) Catalogue of the Mesostigmata mites in Finland. Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 92: 129 - 148.