Joharchi Omid, Babaeian Esmaeil, Seeman Owen D
Department of Plant Protection, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.; Email:
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 May 6;3955(4):549-60. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.4.6.
A new species of laelapid mite, Myrmozercon hunteri sp. nov. associated with Myrmica sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), is described and illustrated. A key to 18 species of Myrmozercon is presented. Ten further species, all described prior to 1950, are briefly diagnosed but cannot be included in the key. Myrmozercon is shown to include a distinct group, Myrmozercon sensu stricto, which all have short, highly hypotrichous legs and a series of other consistent character states. This group probably arises from within Myrmozercon sensu lato, which have long legs with little or no hypotrichy, but some species also have character states found in Myrmozercon s.s. Myrmozercon ovatum Karawajew, 1909 is regarded a junior synonym of M. brevipes Berlese, 1902.
描述并图示了一种与蚁属（膜翅目：蚁科）相关的新厉螨物种——亨特氏蚁厉螨（Myrmozercon hunteri sp. nov.）。给出了18种蚁厉螨的检索表。另外10种均在1950年之前被描述，在此对其进行简要诊断，但未纳入检索表。蚁厉螨被证明包含一个独特的类群，即狭义蚁厉螨，其所有成员的腿短且刚毛极少，还有一系列其他一致的特征状态。该类群可能起源于广义蚁厉螨，广义蚁厉螨的腿长且几乎没有或完全没有刚毛，但一些物种也具有狭义蚁厉螨的特征状态。1909年的卵形蚁厉螨（Myrmozercon ovatum Karawajew）被视为1902年的短足蚁厉螨（M. brevipes Berlese）的次异名。
