Ameroseius aegypticus El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979

Masan, Peter, 2017, A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna, ZooKeys 704, pp. 1-228 : 1

Ameroseius aegypticus El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979

Ameroseius aegypticus El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979: 2.

Ameroseius aegypticus . - Zaher 1986: 401; Narita et al. 2015: 395.

Type depository.

Not stated.

Type locality and habitat.

Egypt, Giza Governorate, Dokki, Ministry of Agriculture, decayed debris under wild-sage, Lantana camara ( Verbenaceae ).

Remarks.

A species closely related with Ameroseius lidiae Bregetova, 1977, if not identical. I have seen a series of photos displaying a specimen of this species from Egypt (kindly sent by R. Abo-Shnaf). Some differential characters for separating Ameroseius aegypticus and A. lidiae could be based on dorsal chaetotaxy (in A. aegypticus , dorsal setae slightly longer and more slender when compared with A. lidiae , the distance between left and right base in setal pairs j5, J2 and J4 relatively shorter; setae Z2 only slightly longer than Z1 and Z3).