Two new species of the genus Pterygosoma (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing agamid lizards (Sauria: Agamidae) from the Indian subcontinent

Monika Fajfer

doi:10.1515/ap-2016-0045

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Two new species of the genus Pterygosoma (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing agamid lizards (Sauria: Agamidae) from the Indian subcontinent

Monika Fajfer

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From the journal Acta Parasitologica Volume 61 Issue 2

Abstract

Two new species of scale-mites parasitizing lizards of the family Agamidae (Sauria) are described: Pterygosoma blandfordi n. sp. from Psammophilus blanfordanus (Stoliczka) (Agamidae: Draconinae) from South India and Pterygosoma balochistani n. sp. from Laudakia nupta nupta (De Filippi) (Agamidae: Agaminae) from Pakistan. Pterygosoma blandfordi n. sp. (female) differs from P. foliosetisJack, 1961 by the shape of the idiosoma which is much wider than long (vs. rounded idiosoma in P. foliosetis), the presence of 110–139 pairs of the dorsal anterolateral setae (vs. presence of about 35 pairs of these setae), 20–26 pairs of the peripheral setae (vs. 10–19 pairs), 3 pairs of the genital setae (vs. 1 pair), 6 pairs of the pseudoanal setae (vs. 4 pairs), the absence of leg setae vGII and presence of setae vGIV (vs. presence of setae vGII and absence of setae vGIV). P. balochistani n. sp. (female) differs from P. persicum Hirst, 1917 by the chelicerae 325–350 long (vs. 190–230 long in P. persicum), the fixed cheliceral digit bearing small tines (vs. spinous fixed cheliceral digit), presence of subcapitular setae n (vs. absence of setae n), serrate peripheral setae (vs. smooth peripheral setae), presence of leg setae vGII–III (vs. absence of setae vGII–III), 4 pairs of the genital setae (vs. 3 pairs) and 7 pairs of the pseudoanal serrate setae (vs. 9–11 pairs of filiform setae ps).

Key words: Acari; scale-mites; ectoparasites; lizards; Psammophilus; Laudakia

Acknowledgements

I am very grateful to Dr Andre V. Bochkov (ZISP) for his thorough reading of the manuscript and all his guidance. I thank Michael Franzen (ZSM) and Patrick Campbell (NHM) for their irreplaceable help during my collection of the mites. This research was financially supported by the Polish National Science Centre (No. DEC-2013/11/N/NZ8/00618).

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Received: 2015-8-28

Revised: 2015-11-3

Accepted: 2015-12-10

Published Online: 2016-3-30

Published in Print: 2016-6-1

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Keywords for this article

Acari; scale-mites; ectoparasites; lizards; Psammophilus; Laudakia