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 text ZooKeys 2017 2017-09-29 704 1 228 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304 1313-2970-704-1 111A101E74054C408F51693957A64D97 CB39FF8EFFA2FF8CFFBFFFA9FF94FF8B 1149838 Hattena rhizophorae Faraji & Cornejo, 2006 Hattena rhizophorae Faraji & Cornejo, 2006: 287. Type depository. Museo de Zoologia de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Quito, Ecaudor; Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands; British Museum (Natural History), London, United Kingdom; United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., USA. Type locality and habitat. Ecuador, Manabi Province, Rio Chone Estuary, Punta Blanca Mangrove, Bahia de Caraquez, on flowers of red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle ( Rhizophoraceae ). Remarks. Faraji and Cornejo (2006) reported this species as having only four instead of six pairs of setae on opisthogastric soft integument, taking no account of the relative positions of all these setae on an expanded striate integument and their dimorphic expression common in Ameroseiidae (a pair of opisthogastric setae usually absent in male). For that reason, they interpreted JV4 and JV5 (designated in their illustration as R3 and R4) to belong to a complement of posterior marginal dorsal setae. Later, in their description of male and deutonymph, these setae are not referred to. Their JV5 in female and deutonymph are interpreted here as JV3, and they seem to be absent in male. I suspect JV4 to be omitted in the male illustrations of Faraji and Cornejo (2006) , and JV5 not to be homologous in adults of both sexes.