Neopronematus solani Łaniecka and Kaźmierski, 2013

Darbemamieh, Maryam, Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, Khanjani, Mohammad & Kaźmierski, Andrzej, 2015, New species and records of Neopronematus (Acari: Iolinidae) from Iran with a key to world species, Zootaxa 3990 (2), pp. 235-246 : 243

Neopronematus solani Łaniecka and Kaźmierski, 2013

Material examined. Iran, Kermanshah, Sahneh, Cherry leaf, 15. 0 7. 2012, 34̊29̍56̎N, 47̊41̍12̎E, H: 1384 m. M. Darbemamieh, 1♀.

Measurements. Stiletto (16) longer than palp tarsus (12), palp tarsus width: 6, ag4 (12) longer than ag1 (9), tectal setae on leg I longer than tarsus. Tarsus I length: 22.5, width: 10.5, f2 (26–27)> ps1 (20).

Remarks. Darbemamieh et al. (2014b) also collected one female of N. solani from Songhor (34̊46̍N, 47̊35̍E) on August 10, 2013 on potato leaves, representing the first record of this mite from Iran. Meanwhile, our new specimen collected from cherry leaves in Sahneh shows some morphological variance in comparison with holotype collected from Hungary and the specimen collected from potato leaves in Songhor. In the N. solani holotype ( Fig. 6 - left, borrowed from the Ripka collection) there is only a small projection at the base of the empodia that cannot be considered as a hook, which was not mentioned in the original description of this species. This projection is much smaller than the empodial hook visible in our N. solani specimen from Sahneh ( Fig. 6 - right). The claws seem delicately rough in both Iranian specimens and borrowed holotype, which was not mentioned in description of N. solani .

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FIGURE 6. Neopronematus solani holotype tarsus IV (left), Neopronematus solani collected from Sahneh (right).