Ameroseius gillardinae Elsen, 1973

Masan, Peter, 2017, A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna, ZooKeys 704, pp. 1-228 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.704.13304

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:111A101E-7405-4C40-8F51-693957A64D97

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EA263A54-242D-3CA6-C1FD-C6CBC01C05E2

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scientific name

Ameroseius gillardinae Elsen, 1973
status

 

Ameroseius gillardinae Elsen, 1973 View in CoL

Ameroseius gillardinae Elsen, 1973: 741.

Ameroseius gillardinae . - Narita et al. 2015: 396.

Type depository.

Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren Belgium.

Type locality and habitat.

Democratic Republic of Congo (as Zaire), Luluabourg, on digger wasp, Sphex fumicatus (as Sphex umbrosus metallicus ) ( Hymenoptera ).

Comparative material.

Democratic Republic of Congo: 4 ♀♀ (MRAC: 142496, holotype; MRAC: 142508, 170343, paratypes) - 7-18. 3. 1935, Luluabourg, Sphex umbrosus var. metallicus , leg. Gillardin.

Remarks.

Given that the characteristics of the type specimens of Ameroseius gillardinae are within the range of variability found in Ameroseius benoiti Elsen, 1973, I suspect A. gillardinae to be a synonym of A. benoiti .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Ameroseiidae

Genus

Ameroseius

Loc

Ameroseius gillardinae Elsen, 1973

Masan, Peter 2017
2017
Loc

Ameroseius gillardinae

Elsen 1973
1973
Loc

Ameroseius gillardinae

Elsen 1973
1973