<documentID-CLB-Dataset="31920"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304"ID-GBIF-Dataset="f40d3cf7-97b2-4bc8-bdbb-9156ffa47c2f"ID-PMC="PMC5674037"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-704-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="CB39FF8EFFA2FF8CFFBFFFA9FF94FF8B"ID-PubMed="29118608"ID-ZBK="111A101E74054C408F51693957A64D97"ID-Zenodo-Dep="1149838"ID-ZooBank="111A101E74054C408F51693957A64D97"ModsDocAuthor=""ModsDocDate="2017"ModsDocID="1313-2970-704-1"ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 704"ModsDocTitle="A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna"checkinTime="1506749581765"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Masan, Peter"docDate="2017"docId="D26EE3BAC4BCD4C9E4A0606E6BB073D9"docLanguage="en"docName="ZooKeys 704: 1-228"docOrigin="ZooKeys 704"docPubDate="2017-09-29"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304"docTitle="Sinoseius lobatus Bai, Gu & Fang 1995"docType="treatment"docVersion="8"id="CB39FF8EFFA2FF8CFFBFFFA9FF94FF8B"lastPageNumber="1"masterDocId="CB39FF8EFFA2FF8CFFBFFFA9FF94FF8B"masterDocTitle="A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna"masterLastPageNumber="228"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="1"updateTime="1732478223859"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="79DDBECB40408DC6ACAD91630EDE291B">A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="7C1E06A92F01255118970611645E7EFE">Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia</mods:affiliation>
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from Finland (bottom of straw shed and grass in garden of old farm).
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, and found that they are clearly conspecific. According to
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j5-j6, j6 <j6-J2, tines of dorsal setae very thin (depicted up to 19 instead of 9-10 pairs of tines), anal shield only a little wider than long, corniculi distally trifid. It is clear that the distinctions made in the original descriptions and differential diagnosis of
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are based on characteristics that are misinterpreted (form of setae and corniculi) or vary considerably (relative length of dorsal setae, proportion of anal shield), and I do not hesitate to propose the synonymy of both mentioned species, although no types of
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