Raphignathus collegiatus Atyeo, Baker & Crossley, 1961

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 : 85

Raphignathus collegiatus Atyeo, Baker & Crossley, 1961

Diagnosis (female)

Interscutal membrane dorsomedially with one pair of setae; palpfemur with three setae; podosoma bearing a pair of small shields behind median prodorsal shield; dorsal body setae shortand narrow; all dorsal shields punctuated but not striated; with three pairs of genital setae; Femur IV with four setae; endopodal shields present in coxa I-IV.

Materials examined

Two females were collected on 22 Sep. 2020, from soil under Prunus domestica ( Rosaceae ), Dolatshah village village, Lorestan province.

Distribution

This species was originally described from China ( Hu et al. 1995), and also reported from Iran and several other countries, more details on the distribution of this species are given in Khanjani and Ueckermann (2002), Beyzavi et al. (2013), Doğan (2019) and Beron (2020).