Review of the genus Myrmozercon Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae), with description of a new species from Iran Author Joharchi, Omid Author Babaeian, Esmaeil Author Seeman, Owen D. text Zootaxa 2015 3955 4 549 560 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.4.6 18afdd21-843f-40f1-8b03-f845e10768d4 1175-5326 241204 E544637B-924B-4A0A-A1D6-DDA5DEE9B2B4 Myrmozercon aequalis ( Banks, 1916 ) Myrmonyssus aequalis Banks, 1916 : 227 . Diagnosis. Body length 850; dorsal shield not truncate, highly hypertrichous. Legs long, legs I about as long as body. Host: Iridomyrmex gracilis (Lowne) . Remarks. Little is discernable from the original description, but M . scutellatus and M . crinitis share the features of dorsal hypotrichy and long legs. Walter (2003) separated M . aequalis and M . scutellatus on differences in body size, the length of the dorsal setae, and the shape of the female genital shield. Males of M . aequalis also have the unique feature within Myrmozercon of ventral spurs on the femur, genu and tibia of leg II. The host genus of M . aequalis and M . scutellatus is Iridomyrmex . Myrmozercon crinitis was collected from Pheidole , and differs in the shape of the idiosoma (tapering in M . crinitis , rounded in M . aequalis and M . scutellatus ) and by lacking spurs on leg II of the male.