Pachyseius masani Özbek & Halliday, 2014

Özbek, Hasan Hüseyin & Halliday, Bruce, 2024, Two new species of mites in the family Pachylaelapidae from Türkiye (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 5514 (4), pp. 319-337 : 333

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2CE56BDB-FDDC-4364-B1E9-F4BC43A31C96

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13936632

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD7414-6D7D-1D25-FF04-C22F1FE117C1

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pachyseius masani Özbek & Halliday, 2014
status

 

Pachyseius masani Özbek & Halliday, 2014 View in CoL

( Figs 10–11 View FIGURES 7‒11 )

Pachyseius masani Özbek & Halliday, 2014: 110 View in CoL View Cited Treatment .

Pachyseius masani View in CoL .— Özbek & Halliday, 2015b: 105; Babaeian et al., 2016: 305; Şahin & Özbek, 2018: 244 View Cited Treatment .

Remarks

This species ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 7‒11 ) was first described by Özbek & Halliday (2014) from Gümüşhane Province on the basis of seven females. Later Şahin & Özbek (2018) found four females from Bayburt Province and five females from Tunceli Province. Ahadiyat et al. (2016) described Pachyseius masanisimilis Ahadiyat et al., 2016 from Iran and distinguished it from P. masani based on the reticulation on the anterior part of the idiosoma, the position of the anterior tips of the peritremes, the position of setae j1, j2 and z1 and the poroid idj1, and the shape of the posterior ends of the peritrematal shields. The differences between these two species are slight, and may be due to intra-species variation and slide preparation artefacts. Özbek & Halliday (2014) illustrated the posterior end of the peritrematal shields in one specimen and did not mention shape of the posterior end of peritrematal shield in the other specimens. We have re-examined all specimens of P. masani and confirm that the posterior end of the peritrematal shield is clearly truncated in most of them ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 7‒11 ). It is therefore possible that P. masanisimilis is not a valid species, but is actually a synonym of P. masani . However, we cannot confirm that suggestion because we have not had the opportunity to examine the Iranian specimens. The status of these two species should be re-examined when more specimens are available, especially including males of the Iranian species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Pachylaelapidae

Genus

Pachyseius

Loc

Pachyseius masani Özbek & Halliday, 2014

Özbek, Hasan Hüseyin & Halliday, Bruce 2024
2024
Loc

Pachyseius masani

Sahin, G. & Ozbek, H. H. 2018: 244
Babaeian, E. & Masan, P. & Saboori, A. 2016: 305
Ozbek, H. H. & Halliday, B. 2015: 105
2015
Loc

Pachyseius masani Özbek & Halliday, 2014: 110

Ozbek, H. H. & Halliday, B. 2014: 110
2014
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