A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna Article Swipe

The family Ameroseiidae Evans, 1961 (Acari: Mesostigmata) includes a total of 12 valid and adequately described genera, namely <i>Afrocypholaelaps</i> Elsen, 1972, <i>Ameroseiella</i> Bregetova, 1977, <i>Ameroseius</i> Berlese, 1904, <i>Asperolaelaps</i> Womersley, 1956, <i>Brontispalaelaps</i> Womersley, 1956, <i>Epicriopsis</i> Berlese, 1916, <i>Hattena</i> Domrow, 1963, <i>Kleemannia</i> Oudemans, 1930, <i>Neocypholaelaps</i> Vitzthum, 1942, <i>Pseudoameroseius</i><b>gen. n.</b>, <i>Sertitympanum</i> Elsen & Whitaker, 1985 and <i>Sinoseius</i> Bai & Gu, 1995. One of these genera includes subgenera, namely Kleemannia (Primoseius) Womersley, 1956. All genera are reviewed and re-diagnosed, and a dichotomous key is provided for their identification. <i>Ameroseius</i> (50 species), <i>Kleemannia</i> (28 species) and <i>Neocypholaelaps</i> (22 species) are the largest genera in the family. <i>Ameroseiella</i>, <i>Kleemannia</i>, Kleemannia (Primoseius) and <i>Sinoseius</i> are considered to be valid taxa and, in presented systematic classification, they are removed from synonymy with <i>Ameroseius</i>. The genus <i>Pseudoameroseius</i><b>gen. n.</b>, with type species <i>Ameroseius michaelangeli</i> Moraza, 2006 (from Canary Islands), is newly erected to further refine broad primary concept of <i>Ameroseius</i> as understood by some former authors (Karg, Bregetova). <i>Asperolaelaps</i> is removed from synonymy with <i>Neocypholaelaps</i>. Three new species are here described, namely <i>Ameroseius renatae</i><b>sp. n.</b> (based on specimens from Slovakia), <i>Kleemannia dolichochaeta</i><b>sp. n.</b> (from Spain) and <i>Kleemannia miranda</i><b>sp. n.</b> (from U.S.A.). The following new junior synonymies are proposed: <i>Ameroseius apodius</i> Karg, 1971 = <i>Ameroseiella macrochelae</i> (Westerboer, 1963); <i>Ameroseius bregetovae</i> Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1975 = <i>Neocypholaelaps favus</i> Ishikawa, 1968; <i>Ameroseius chinensis</i> Khalili-Moghadam & Saboori, 2016 = <i>Ameroseius guyimingi</i> Ma, 1997; <i>Ameroseius crassisetosus</i> Ye & Ma, 1993, <i>Ameroseius qinghaiensis</i> Li & Yang, 2000 and <i>Ameroseius norvegicus</i> Narita, Abduch & Moraes, 2015 = <i>Ameroseius corbiculus</i> (Sowerby, 1806); <i>Ameroseius dubitatus</i> Berlese, 1918 = <i>Kleemannia plumosa</i> (Oudemans, 1902); <i>Ameroseius eumorphus</i> Bregetova, 1977 and <i>Kleemannia potchefstroomensis</i> Kruger & Loots, 1980 = <i>Kleemannia pseudoplumosa</i> (Rack, 1972); <i>Ameroseius gilarovi</i> Petrova, 1986 = <i>Kleemannia plumigera</i> Oudemans, 1930; <i>Ameroseius imparsetosus</i> Westerboer, 1963 = <i>Ameroseius georgei</i> (Turk, 1943); <i>Ameroseius lanatus</i> Solomon, 1969 and <i>Ameroseius fimetorum</i> Karg, 1971 = <i>Kleemannia tenella</i> (Berlese, 1916); <i>Ameroseius lanceosetis</i> Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1975 = <i>Kleemannia pavida</i> (C. L. Koch, 1839); <i>Ameroseius marginalis</i> Fan & Li, 1993 and <i>Ameroseius sichuanensis</i> Fan & Li, 1993 = <i>Kleemannia insignis</i> (Bernhard, 1963); <i>Ameroseius pseudofurcatus</i> Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1975 = <i>Ameroseius furcatus</i> Karg, 1971; <i>Ameroseius stramenis</i> Karg, 1976 and Lasioseius (Lasioseius) gracilis Halbert, 1923 = <i>Kleemannia delicata</i> (Berlese, 1918); <i>Epicriopsis langei</i> Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1975 and <i>Epicriopsis baloghi</i> Kandil, 1978 = <i>Epicriopsis palustris</i> Karg, 1971; <i>Epicriopsis rivus</i> Karg, 1971 = <i>Epicriopsis mirabilis</i> Willmann, 1956; <i>Neocypholaelaps ewae</i> Haitlinger, 1987 = <i>Neocypholaelaps indicus</i> Evans, 1963; <i>Neocypholaelaps lindquisti</i> Prasad, 1968, <i>Afrocypholaelaps ranomafanaensis</i> Haitlinger, 1987 and <i>Afrocypholaelaps analicullus</i> Ho, Ma, Wang & Severinghaus, 2010 = <i>Afrocypholaelaps africanus</i> (Evans, 1963); <i>Sinoseius pinnatus</i> Huhta & Karg, 2010 = <i>Sinoseius lobatus</i> Bai, Gu & Fang, 1995. <i>Ameroseius womersleyi</i> Mašán, is a replacement name proposed for <i>Ameroseius ornatus</i> Womersley, 1956, a junior secondary homonym of <i>Cornubia ornata</i> Turk, 1943 [= <i>Ameroseius corbiculus</i> (Sowerby, 1806)]. <i>Cornubia georgei</i> Turk, 1943 is removed from synonymy with <i>Ameroseius corbiculus</i> (Sowerby, 1806). An annotated catalogue of the world species of Ameroseiidae is provided, partly based on type (in more than 60 species) and non-type specimens from various museum deposits and personal collections, including new or revised material from Slovakia. It contains 206 named species (138 valid species, 37 synonyms, nine unrecognizable species, 15 species previously excluded from Ameroseiidae, and seven "nomina nuda"), with details of their authorship, synonyms, nomenclatural and bibliographic details, generic placement, and morphology. Altogether 23 new combinations are proposed. The genus <i>Sertitympanum</i> with <i>Sertitympanum nodosum</i> (Sheals, 1962) and two further species, namely <i>Kleemannia kosi</i> El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979 and <i>Kleemannia parplumosa</i> Nasr & Abou-Awad, 1986, are reported from Europe for the first time. New keys are given for identification of 37 species belonging to eight genera which have been found in Europe to date (<i>Ameroseiella</i>, <i>Ameroseius</i>, <i>Epicriopsis</i>, <i>Kleemannia</i>, <i>Neocypholaelaps</i>, <i>Pseudoameroseius</i><b>gen. n.</b>, <i>Sertitympanum</i> and <i>Sinoseius</i>). All of these genera except <i>Pseudoameroseius</i> gen. nov. and <i>Sertitympanum</i> occur in Slovakia. So, the fauna of Slovakia includes six genera and 27 species, including ten first reports for the country.