Eustigmaeus spathatus Ueckermann & Meyer, 1987

Hatami, Parisa, Jafari, Shahriar & Ahmad-Hosseini, Mohammad, 2024, Some raphignathoid mites (Acariformes: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) in Lorestan Province, with re-description of Raphignathus evidus Fan as a new record from Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 13 (1), pp. 77-92 : 83

Eustigmaeus spathatus Ueckermann & Meyer, 1987

Diagnosis (female)

Dorsal shields evenly covered with irregularly shaped dimples with vacuoles; dorsal body setae blunt tipped; eyes present; setae on endopodal shields smooth; suranal shield ornamented and dimples on suranal shield bearing vacuoles; trochanter III with two setae; femur II with four setae.

Materials examined

Dolatshah village: 24 Jun. 2020 (n = 4), from soil under Hordeum vulgare ( Poaceae ) and 9 Jul. 2020 (n = 2), from soil under Prunus armeniaca ( Rosaceae ). Veysian city: 15 Jun. 2020 (n = 1), from soil under Medicago sativa ( Fabaceae ) and 15 Jun. 2020 (n = 1), from soil under Solanum tuberosum ( Solanaceae ). Faculty of Agriculture of Lorestan University 18 Aug. 2020 (n = 1), from soil under Olea europaea ( Oleaceae ). Pyrjd village: 18 Aug. 2020 (n = 1), from soil under Vitis vinifera ( Vitaceae ) and (n = 2), from soil under Prunus armeniaca ( Rosaceae ). Taf village: 5 Oct. 2020 (n = 1), from soil under Prunus armeniaca ( Rosaceae ). Bisheh village: 9 Nov. 2019 (n = 1), from soil under Prunus domestica ( Rosaceae ).

Distribution

This species has been reported from South Africa originally ( Ueckermann and Meyer 1987) and also reported from Iran ( Beyzavi et al. 2013).