Matacarus Vercammen-Grandjean, 1956

Stekolnikov, Alexandr & Daniel, Milan, 2012, 3216, Zootaxa 3216, pp. 1-104 : 93

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Genus Matacarus Vercammen-Grandjean, 1956

Acomatacarus (Matacarus) Vercammen-Grandjean, 1956b: 625 .

Odontacarus (Matacarus), Taufflieb & Mouchet 1962: 353 .

Matacarus, Vercammen-Grandjean et al. 1973: 62 ; Kudryashova 1998: 54.

Type species: Acomatacarus buretti Vercammen-Grandjean, 1956 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. SIF = 7(6)B-B(N)-(2–8)-2(1)(0–2)1(0)1.0(1)0(2)00; fsp = 6.6.6; fCx = 2.1.1; fSt = 0.2. Cheliceral blade with rows of dorsal and ventral teeth. Scutum nearly trapezoidal, nasus present; two AM setae. Sensilla flagelliform. Stigmata and tracheae present. Numbers of setae on leg femora I–III are 6.6.5; onychotriches present.

Hosts. Reptiles.

Distribution. Africa, South Europe (Crimea). This genus is here recorded from Turkey for the first time.

Species included. Matacarus agamae ( Taufflieb, 1960) , M. arabicus ( Radford, 1954) , M. buretti (Vercammen-Grandjean, 1956) , M. crimeaensis Kudryashova, 1995 , M. demrei ( Kepka, 1962) , comb. nov., M. ediosi ( Taufflieb and Mouchet, 1962) , M. maroccanus ( Taufflieb, 1958) . Australian cooki -species group having femoral numbers 6.6.4 ( Vercammen-Grandjean et al. 1973) should probably be excluded from this genus.

References

Kepka, O. (1962) Trombiculidae (Acari) aus der Turkey. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 21, 273 - 289.

Kudryashova, N. I. (1995) A new species of the genus Matacarus (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) from Crimea. Parazitologiya, 29, 55 - 57. [In Russian]

Kudryashova, N. I. (1998) Chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 342 pp. [In Russian]

Radford, C. D. (1954) Some mites of Yemen. Fieldiana Zoology, 34, 295 - 313.

Taufflieb, R. (1958) Contribution a l'etude des Trombiculidae Marocains. Description de cinq especes nouvelles. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur du Maroc, 5, 619 - 634.

Taufflieb, R. (1960) Contribution a l'etude des Trombiculidae Marocains. Description de nouvelles especes et etude d'une population de Neotrombicula. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur du Maroc, 7, 27 - 48.

Taufflieb, R. & Mouchet, J. (1962) Cinq Trombiculidae (Acarina) nouveaux du Nord-Cameroun. Remarques sur le sous-genre Matacarus Verc., 1956. Acarologia, 4, 346 - 356.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1956 b) Un Leeuwenhoekiinae africain extraordinaire, d'un sous-genre nouveau: Acomatacarus (Matacarus) buretti, n. sg., n. sp. (Acarina). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, 105, 625 - 630.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H., Langston, R. L. & Audy, J. R. (1973) Tentative nepophylogeny of trombiculids. Folia Parasitologica, 20, 49 - 66.