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 tongana (Manson, 1974) Edbarellus tonganus Manson, 1974: 116. Hattena tongana . - Halliday 1997 : 188. Hattena tonganus . - Klimov et al. 2016 . Type depository. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Levin, New Zealand; United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., USA; Entomology Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Auckland, New Zealand. Type locality and habitat. Pacific Ocean Region, Kingdom of Tonga, Tongatapu Island, in a hive of European honey bee, Apis mellifera ( Hymenoptera ). Remarks. I suspect this species to be a junior synonym of Hattena panopla . Halliday (1997) reported many extreme similarities between Hattena tongana and H. panopla , but he did not consider them to be conspecific. Differences in shape of sternal shields described by Halliday (1997) could be questionable due to the weak sclerotization of the sternal shield and its margins, characterstic of Hattena . However, I adopted in this paper the interpretation of Halliday (1997) , considering them distinct species.