Kleemannia kosi 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

Kleemannia kosi El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979

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Kleemania (sic) Kleemannia kosi El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979: 5.

Kleemannia kosi . - Mohamed et al. 1985: 98; Zaher 1986: 402.

Kleemannia Kosi (sic). - Mohamed et al. 1985: 99.

Type depository.

Not stated.

Type locality and habitat.

Egypt, Kena Governorate, Koa, in debris under orange tree, Citrus x sinensis (as Citrus sininses ) ( Rutaceae ).

Comparative material.

Germany / India: 2 ♀♀ (ZMB: 40281) - 2. 5. 1969, Zwiebeln 301 , Indien, „Meyenburg“, 2989 (labelled Ameroseius gracilis ); 2 ♀♀ (ZMH: A102/85) - Nov. 1983, Hamburg, eingeschleppt mit gesacktem Pfeffer, Jutesäcke, leg. Hüter (Degesch), det. G. Rack in 1983 (labelled Ameroseius cf. plumigerus ) .

Remarks.

El-Badry et al. (1979) and Zaher (1986) gave only a brief description of Kleemannia kosi . So, my identification of this species was initially based on insufficiently detailed illustrations available in their papers, later also on detailed photos of specimens stated to be Kleemannia kosi and originated from Egypt (kindly sent by R. Abo-Shnaf).

Together with other ameroseiid species such as Kleemannia parplumosa and Sertitympanum nodosum , it can represent a group of stored product mites unintentionally introduced to Europe by various human activities (see comparative material above).

Figures

Plate 41. Kleemannia kosi, female (from Germany), dorsal idiosoma.

Plate 42. Kleemannia kosi, female (from Germany), dorsal idiosoma.