Macrocheles caelatus Berlese, 1918

Saeed, Fateme & Kazemi, Shahrooz, 2019, First record of Macrocheles caelatus Berlese (Mesostigmata, Macrochelidae) from Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (1), pp. 73-76 : 73-75

Macrocheles caelatus Berlese, 1918

Macrocheles (Coprholaspis) caelatus Berlese (1918) : 157.

Macrocheles caelatus Walter & Krantz (1986) : 283.

Berlese described the species based on specimens collected in East Africa. Walter & Krantz

(1986) redescribed this species based on specimens associated with Copris Geoffroy and Onitis Fabricius collected in Zaire and Rwanda, and also presented a key for five complex species for Macrocheles glaber group and placed M. caelatus in limue complex based on the narrow “linea angulata".

Diagnosis

Dorsal shield setae j1, j4 and z4 pilose distally, J5 pectinate, Z4, Z5 and S5 finely barbed in half distal length, other setae smooth; ventrianal shield wider than long; details of sternal shield as Figure 1; other diagnostic characters as Walter & Krantz (1986). Measurements of morphological attributes presented in Table 1.

FIRST RECORD OF MACROCHELES CAELATUS FROM IRAN

Distribution East and center Africa ( Berlese 1918; Walter & Krantz 1986), Iran (this paper).

Material examined

One female, southeastern Iran, Kerman City, Shahid Park, in soil and litter (30º 18ʹ 5ʺ N; 57º 4ʹ 17ʺ E), 07 July 2017, coll. F. Saeed, deposited in the Acarological Collection, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran