Review of the European genera of Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata) and the species occurring in Slovakia 2585
Author
Mašán, Peter
Author
Halliday, Bruce
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
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journal article
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Copriphis
(
Pelethiphis
)
undulatus
Berlese
Copriphis
(
Pelethiphis
)
undulatus
Berlese, 1921: 172
;
Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985: 428
.
Pelethiphis undulatus
.—
Shoemake, 1970: 156
.
Remarks.
There is only
one specimen
of this species in the Berlese Acaroteca, on slide number 196/33, labelled "tipico". It contains a poor quality female specimen from
Germany
. The length of the specimen is 458 µm. It has an unpaired J seta between dorsal setae J2 and J5, suggesting that this species is similar to
Alliphis siculus
; both were collected from the same beetle host,
Scarabaeus semipunctatus
. The only obvious difference between these species seems to be the length of the central dorsal shield setae (for example length of J2 is 32 µm in
undulatus
, while 22 µm in
siculus
).