Raphignathus giselae Meyer & Ueckermann, 1989

Hatami, Parisa, Jafari, Shahriar & Ahmad-Hosseini, Mohammad, 2024, Some raphignathoid mites (Acariformes: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) in Lorestan Province, with re-description of Raphignathus evidus Fan as a new record from Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 13 (1), pp. 77-92 : 86

Raphignathus giselae Meyer & Ueckermann, 1989

Diagnosis (female)

Median prodorsal shield widely separated from peritremes interiorly; interscutal membrane dorsomedially with two pairs of setae; opisthosomal shield with four pairs of setae; palpfemur with 2 setae; femur IV with 3 setae; dorsal setae e1 don’t reach to anterior margin of opisthosomal shield, f1 on anterior margin of opisthosomal shield; endopodal shield associated with coxae III-IV.

Materials examined

Two females from soil under Juglans regia ( Juglandaceae ), Dolatshah village, 8 Jul. 2020 and one female was collected on 24 Sep. 2020 from soil under Vitis vinifera ( Vitaceae ), Kamalvand village, Lorestan province.

Distribution

This species was originally described from Zimbabwe ( Meyer and Ueckermann 1989), and also reported from Iran, South Africa, Türkiye, and Yemen ( Beyzavi et al. 2013; Zarei et al. 2015; Doğan 2019; Beron 2020; Mohammad-Doustaresharaf and Bagheri 2021).