Abrolophus dagmarae ( HAITLINGER , 2012)

Haitlinger, Ryszard & Łupicki, Dariusz, 2015, A redescription of Abrolophus silesiacus (HAITLINGER, 1986) with notes on some other Abrolophus species (Acari, Prostigmata, Erythraeidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 569-581 : 574

Abrolophus dagmarae ( HAITLINGER, 2012)

This species was known only from 4 localities in Sicily ( HAITLINGER 2012).

New localities: 2 larvae, 21 April 2012, Masteria Cagelotto n. Piana di Albanesi, 1 larva, 17 April 2012, Boletto n. San Giuseppe Jato (Palermo prov.), 1 larva, 24 April 2012, Salaparuta (Trapani prov.), 3 km east of Santo Stefano, 11 May 2014, all from herbaceous plants.

WOHLTMANN & MĄKOL (2012) recognized this species as synonym of A. norvegicus . They compared metric and meristic data of both species stated small differences only between 6 metric features. Both species radically differs in the following characters (33 studied specimens of A. norvegicus were collected from Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sicily, Slovakia, Sweden and Ukraine): odontus (OD) divided to about ⅓-½ of its length vs. OD bifurcate at termination (divided ~⅛ its length), the shorter OD, GL, ISD, L, ASE, SB, cs, as1, PaFe (W), PaGe (W) and PaTi (W) (Table 2). From Madeira 3 specimens were collected mistakely determined as A. neobrevicollis ZHANG & GOLDARAZENA 1996 ( HAITLINGER 2002b). Later A. neobrevicollis was synonymized with A. norvegicus ( WOHLTMANN & MĄKOL 2012) . Specimens from Madeira have typical characters for A. dagmarae ( Table 3). Now, A. dagmarae is known only from Sicily and Madeira and this species is not a synonym of A. norvegicus .