Ornithogastia merops ( Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970 ) Stekolnikov & Saboori & Shamsi & Hakimitabar, 2019

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., Saboori, Alireza, Shamsi, Mohsen & Hakimitabar, Masoud, 2019, Chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Iran, Zootaxa 4549 (1), pp. 1-66 : 30

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4549.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5250890
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scientific name	Ornithogastia merops ( Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Ornithogastia merops ( Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970) , comb. nov.

Guntherana (Ornithogastia) merops Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970: 775 (material), 781 (description), fig. 13.

Diagnosis. SIF = 5B-N-3-2111.4300; fPp = B/B/NNB; fsp = 7.7.7; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.4; fSc: AL> PL > AM; fD = 2H-[4-4-2]-8-8- 10-2-4-2; DS = 46; VS = 48 ; NDV = 94; Ip = 894; eyes 2 + 2; f 1 anterior to S 1; f 2 at level of apically slightly inflated S 2; 4 basally ciliated mastitarsalae and 3 basally ciliated mastitibialae. Measurements of holotype ( Vercammen-Grandjean et al. 1970): AW 49 , PW 72 , SB 20, ASB 25, PSB 24, SD 49, AP 36, AM 49 , AL 64, PL 54 , S 34, H 54, D min 30, D max 50, V min 26, V max 38, pa 304, pm 274, pp 316, Ip 894.

Type material examined. Holotype larva ( IUMS) from Merops apiaster, Mashhad, 12 May 1967, coll. C.J. Rohde.

Host. Merops apiaster.

Distribution. Iran (Mashhad).

Remarks. Described from a single specimen. Following Kudryashova (1998), we regard Ornithogastia Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 as a separate genus and thus exclude Ornithogastia merops from the genus Guntherana Womersley, 1939 .