Nomenclature changes in the mite families Neopygmephoridae and Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) with redescription of two little known species
Author
Khaustov, Alexandr A.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2809
47
57
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.201298
9a7a208a-8c53-47c7-9904-1e8197f81d5d
1175-5326
201298
Bakerdania montana
(
Willmann, 1956
)
Bakerdania ptilophora
Savulkina, 1978
: 136
, figs. 33-36.
syn. nov.
I examined female
holotype
of
Bakerdania ptilophora
Savulkina, 1978
described from
Byelorussia
(
Savulkina 1978
). The specimen is damaged, without left setae
c
1 and
c
2. But all other setae are not damaged. Comparison of
holotype
of
B. ptilophora
with the description of
B
.
montana
(
Willmann, 1956
)
and redescription of of this species by
Mahunka (1970)
revealed their conspecificity. Therefore I consider
B. ptilophora
syn. nov
as a junior synonym of
B. montana
.
Material examined
. Female
holotype
of
B. ptilophora
Savulkina, 1978
,
BYELORUSSIA
: Brest Distr., Lunetsk Reg., vicinity of Krestunov, from the nest of
Myodes glareolus
Schreber
(
Rodentia
:
Cricetidae
),
17 April 1968
, coll. I. V. Chikilevskaya.