Macrocheles subbadius ( Berlese, 1904 )

Azevedo, Letícia H., Castilho, Raphael C., Berto, Marielle M. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2017, Macrochelid mites (Mesostigmata: Macrochelidae) from São Paulo state, Brazil, with description of a new species of Macrocheles, Zootaxa 4269 (3), pp. 413-426 : 422

Macrocheles subbadius ( Berlese, 1904)

Gamasus tardus .— Berlese, 1882: 105 [Misidentification; see subsequent note].

Holostaspis marginatus .— Berlese, 1889: 6 [Misidentification; see subsequent note].

Macrocheles subbadius .— Filipponi & Seganti, 1957: 27; Bregetova & Koroleva, 1960: 132; Filipponi & Pegazzano, 1963: 73; Bregetova, 1977: 354; Hyatt & Emberson, 1988: 111; Masán, 2003: 115.

Macrocheles (Macrocheles) subbadius .— Karg, 1993: 109.

Macrocheles situs Karg, 1978: 364 [Synonymy by Krantz & Whitaker, 1988: 257].

Note. Specimens reported by Berlese (1882: 105) as Gamasus tardus Koch and by Berlese (1889: 6) as Holostaspis marginatus (Hermann) were described as Holostaspis subbadius Berlese by Berlese, 1904: 264.

Material examined. 13 females from Cajuru (21°12'28"S, 47°19'35"W), 18 February 2014; 21 females from Registro, 24 February 2014; five females from Paraibuna, 10 March 2014; one female from Araçoiaba da Serra (23°31'20"S, 47°38'24"W), 25 February 2014; one female from Nipoã (20°40'20"S, 49°10'22"W), 31 March 2014.

Diagnosis of female. Dorsal shield medium sized [640 (570–680) long and 394 (380–450) wide at level of coxa III (n=5)]; dorsal shield setae aciculate; seta j 1 short. Sternal shield with l. o. a. joined by four or five transverse lines, the most posterior of which is the l. m. t.

Previous records. Australia, Austria, China, England, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Switzerland, USA. This is the first record of this species from Brazil.