A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna
Author
Masan, Peter
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
uzaepema@savba.sk
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304
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Ameroseius gillardinae Elsen, 1973
Ameroseius gillardinae
Elsen, 1973: 741.
Ameroseius gillardinae
. -
Narita et al. 2015
: 396.
Type depository.
Musee
Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren Belgium.
Type locality and habitat.
Democratic Republic of Congo (as Zaire), Luluabourg, on digger wasp,
Sphex fumicatus
(as
Sphex umbrosus metallicus
) (
Hymenoptera
).
Comparative material.
Democratic Republic of Congo
:
4 ♀♀
(MRAC: 142496,
holotype
; MRAC: 142508, 170343,
paratypes
) -
7-18. 3. 1935
,
Luluabourg
,
Sphex umbrosus var. metallicus
, leg.
Gillardin.
Remarks.
Given that the characteristics of the type specimens of
Ameroseius gillardinae
are within the range of variability found in
Ameroseius benoiti
Elsen, 1973, I suspect
A. gillardinae
to be a synonym of
A. benoiti
.