Myrmozercon tauricus Trach & Khaustov

Joharchi, Omid & Moradi, Maryam, 2013, Review of the genus Myrmozercon Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae), with description of two new species from Iran, Zootaxa 3686 (2), pp. 244-254 : 250

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3686.2.6

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6158416

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scientific name

Myrmozercon tauricus Trach & Khaustov
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Myrmozercon tauricus Trach & Khaustov

Myrmozercon tauricus Trach & Khaustov, 2011: 1 .

Specimens examined. Two females, Iran, Damavand mountain, 35°52' N, 52°07' E, alt. 2422 m, 18 May 2013, O. Joharchi coll., clinging to the head of Crematogaster schmidti (Mayr) (Formicidae) View in CoL in the bark of grapevine.

Notes. M. tauricus was described from Ukraine ( Trach & Khaustov, 2011). It has been found in the nest of Crematogaster schmidti (Mayr, 1853) View in CoL in the bark of Pinus pallasiana D. Don View in CoL , and is now recorded in Iran for the first time, from the same host in the bark of grape. Our specimens agree very well with the description given by Trach & Khaustov (2011). The dorsal shield has 34 pairs of short serrated setae. Trach & Khaustov (2011) described epistome as smooth but in our specimens the epistome is irregularly denticulate and all the dorsal shield setae are the same length (in M. tauricus some setae longer or smaller than others), but we regard our specimens as the same species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Laelapidae

Genus

Myrmozercon

Loc

Myrmozercon tauricus Trach & Khaustov

Joharchi, Omid & Moradi, Maryam 2013
2013
Loc

Myrmozercon tauricus

Trach 2011: 1
2011
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