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Issue: Vol. 2290 No. 1: 16 Nov. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2290.1.6
Page range: 59–64
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

A redefinition of Iranothyas Bader, 1984 with the description of a new species from Oman

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro
Biesingerstr. 11, D-72070 Tübingen, Germany
Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acari Iranothyas Balaneothyas new species Oman

Abstract

From a reinvestigation of the holotype of Iranothyas circularis (Schwoerbel & Sepasgozarian, 1976) results that this species was based on a female, not a male, as stated in the original description. The genus Iranothyas Bader, 1984, is redefined and Balaneothyas Gerecke, 1999 (monotypic, type species: B. marismortui Gerecke, 1999 from Israel) is recognized as its junior synonym. Bader's (1984) proposal to attribute Panisopsis orientalis Imamura & Mitchell, 1967 to Iranothyas is refused. A new, third species of Iranothyas, I. alhajarica n. sp., is described from Oman.

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