Hypoaspis muellerae Halliday, 2005

Joharchi, Omid, Ramroodi, Sara & Halliday, Bruce, 2020, Review of the genus Pogonolaelaps Nemati & Gwiazdowicz (Acari: Laelapidae) with description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 4820 (3), pp. 465-484 : 477-481

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5DC6D28F-4A18-4C6E-85E3-6CA734EBB4FC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4432761

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FE0387F2-FF9F-FFF6-6ACA-F8D774B3FD0E

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Plazi

scientific name

Hypoaspis muellerae Halliday, 2005
status

 

Hypoaspis muellerae Halliday, 2005

( Figs 38–45 View FIGURES 38–45 )

Hypoaspis muellerae Halliday, 2005: 32 View Cited Treatment .

Specimens examined. Five paratypes ( ANIC 51-002833 About ANIC 51-002837 About ANIC ) were examined by the first author from Australian National Insect Collection , Canberra ( Australia), and each microslide containing one female labelled as: Hypoaspis muellerae Halliday , South Africa, Plettenberg Bay, 18 August 1994, Roadside picnic area, TK. Qin coll., Clover, cape weed, site 30–13.

Halliday (2005) described Hypoaspis muellerae from Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. We have re-examined the paratypes of this species, and now take the opportunity to make some additions to the original description. In the description of this species ( Halliday, 2005, Fig. 17 View FIGURES 14–17 ) setae st4 are obviously present but that was an error, and in all the specimens we examined setae st4 were absent ( Figs 39 & 41 View FIGURES 38–45 ). The description did not mention the location of iv3, but they are located on the posterolateral angles of the sternal shield in all the specimens we examined ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 38–45 ). This species shows some significant morphological character states typical of Laelaspisella : (1) dorsal shield hypertrichous and with at least 11–13 non-secretory slit-like lyrifissures ( Figs 38 & 40 View FIGURES 38–45 ); (2) metasternal setae st4 absent ( Figs 39 & 41 View FIGURES 38–45 ); (3) genitiventral shield large, broad and rounded posteriorly ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 38–45 ); (4) iv3 located on posterolateral angles of sternal shield ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 38–45 ); (5) internal malae densely fringed and with elongate threads ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 38–45 ); (6) lateral margin of epistome smooth and anteriorly mucronated ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 38–45 ); (7) palp tarsal claw with two tines ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 38–45 ). However, it differs from the original concept of Laelaspisella as described by Marais & Loots (1969), because the dorsal cheliceral seta is present ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 38–45 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Laelapidae

Genus

Hypoaspis

Loc

Hypoaspis muellerae Halliday, 2005

Joharchi, Omid, Ramroodi, Sara & Halliday, Bruce 2020
2020
Loc

Hypoaspis muellerae

Halliday, R. B. 2005: 32
2005
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