Myrmozercon brevipes Berlese, 1902

Khalili-Moghadam, A. & Saboori, A., 2015, Some mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with ants in Shahrekord region, Iran, Ecologica Montenegrina 2 (4), pp. 315-326 : 319-320

Myrmozercon brevipes Berlese, 1902

Myrmozercon brevipes Berlese 1902: 700 .

Myrmozercon brevipes .— Berlese 1904: 313; Kontschán & Seeman 2015: 21 .

Myrmozercon ovatum Karawajew 1909: 236 (synonymy by Ghafarian et al. 2013). Collection data. Females (n = 4) and males (n = 1) were collected from soil of ant nests, Tapinoma sp. (Hym.: Formicidae ), Saman city (32° 30' 29" N, 50° 54' 57" E, 2015 m a.s.l.), 28.03.2014.

Supplementary description. Hypertrichous dorsal shield covering whole surface of idiosoma (Fig. 2), 672– 687 long, 610–625 wide at widest part. Sternal shield fused with endopodal plates (Figs 1, 3) and extended to the mid-level of coxa IV, with three pairs of sternal and one pair of metasternal setae. Genital shield (Fig. 4) 412 long, 270 wide at widest area near to coxa IV, with pointed posterior margin, one pair of extra setae on margins near genital setae. Peritreme extending to anterior level of coxa III. Hypostome with asymmetrical setae; the interior hypostomal seta (h3) was absent one side ( Fig. 5). Legs without claws, but with a sucker-like pulvillus ( Fig. 6).

Notes. Kontschán & Seeman (2015) redescribed this species based on material from western Greece. We present here some characters in which the Iranian specimens differ from their description.