Description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) from Iran, with a key to world species of the genus with short peritremes
Author
Vatankhah, Farzaneh
Author
Nemati, Alireza
Author
Esfandiari, Mehdi
Author
Shishehbor, Parviz
text
Zootaxa
2016
4121
5
566
574
journal article
38879
10.11646/zootaxa.4121.5.6
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Notes on
Gaeolaelaps
with short peritremes
Karg (1979
,
1982
,
2006
) has defined a
G
.
similisetae
species group including species that have short peritremes that extend to the middle or at most to anterior margin of coxa II.
Nemati & Mohseni (2013)
provided a key for 17 species of
Gaeolaelaps
with short peritremes. In most of these species the peritreme extends to the middle of coxa II, except for
G
.
macra
(
Karg, 1978
)
and
G
.
orbiculatus
Nemati & Mohseni,
2013
in which the peritremes extend to the anterior level of coxa II. In the present paper we provide a key to 26 species that are considered as
Gaeolaelaps
which have a peritreme that extends to the anterior level of coxa II. In this group there are some species with very short peritreme extending only to the anterior level of coxa III (
Mašán, 1998
;
Sklyar, 2012
;
Trach, 2012
,
2016
).