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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Hattena incisa Halliday, 1997
Hattena incisa
Halliday, 1997: 193.
Hattena incisa
. -
Faraji and Cornejo 2006
: 291.
Type depository.
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
Type locality and habitat.
Australia, Northern Territory, Elizabeth River near Palmerston, on flowers of spotted mangrove,
Rhizophora stylosa
(
Rhizophoraceae
).
Remarks.
Hattena dalyi
(Elsen, 1974) is exceedingly similar to
Hattena incisa
. The position of st2 appears to be the only important difference between these species; these are on the sternal shield margin in
H. dalyi
and on separate and small shield fragments close to lateral margins of the sternal shield in
H. incisa
.
Halliday (1997)
may have overlooked the existence of
H. dalyi
because it was described as a species of
Afrocypholaelaps
, until
Klimov et al. (2016)
transferred it to
Hattena
. In addition,
Halliday (1997)
did not cite
Elsen (1974)
. Thus, a thorough morphological comparison between these species is necessary.