Subfamily Coleoscirinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae)
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Subfamily Coleoscirinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae), with Description of One New Species from Pakistan Author(s): Muhammad Hamid Bashir, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Ashfaq, Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Kamran and Sabyan Faris Honey Source: Journal of Insect Science, 14(82):1-14. 2014. Published By: Entomological Society of America DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.014.82 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1673/031.014.82 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 14 | Article 82 Bashir et al. Subfamily Coleoscirinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae), with description of one new species from Pakistan Muhammad Hamid Bashir1a*, Muhammad Afzal2b, Muhammad Ashfaq1c, Shaukat Ali3d, Muhammad Kamran2e, and Sabyan Faris Honey1f 1Department of Agri. Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan 2University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan 3College of Natural Resource and Environment, South China Agricultural University, China Abstract The Coleoscirinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae) from Pakistan are summarized in this paper. Two species of Scutascirus Den Heyer (S. pirgus Chaudhri and Akbar and S. tactus Chaudhri and Akbar), ten species of Coleoscirus Berlese (C. baptos (Chaudhri and Akbar), C. carex (Inayatullah and Shahid), C. carnus Muhammad and Chaudhri, C. comis Muhammad and Chaudhri, C. disparis Muhammad and Chaudhri, C. irroratus Muhammad and Chaudhri, C. mardi (Inatullah and Shahid), C. raviensis Afzal, Ashfaq and Khan, C. tobaensis Bashir, Afzal, Ashfaq, and Khan, and C. trudus Bashir, Afzal and Akbar), and three species of Pseudobonzia Smiley (P. ashfaqi Bashir, Afzal and Akbar, P. numida Chaudhri and Akbar, and P. parilus Chaudhri) have been previously reported. One new species of Pseudobonzia, Pseudobonzia bakeri sp. n., is herein described and illustrated. A key to the genera of the subfamily and keys to the species in each genus are given to incorporate the new species from Pakistan. Distribution records of all known species in Pakistan are also given. Keywords: Neoscirulini, Prostigmata Correspondence: a [email protected], b [email protected], c [email protected], d [email protected], e [email protected], f [email protected], *Corresponding author Editor: Takumasa Kondo was editor of this paper. Received: 26 April 2012 Accepted: 12 March 2014 Published: 7 July 2014 Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed. ISSN: 1536-2442 | Vol. 14, Number 82 Cite this paper as: Bashir MH, Afzal M, Ashfaq M, Ali S, Kamran M, Honey SF. 2014. Subfamily Coleoscirinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Cunaxidae), with description of one new species from Pakistan. Journal of Insect Science 14(82). Available online: http://www.insectscience.org/14.82 Journal of Insect Science | http://www.insectscience.org 1 Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 14 | Article 82 Bashir et al. Introduction species Scirus (= Coleoscirus) simplex from the U.S.A. Cunaxidae (Acari: Trombidiformes) are im- portant predatory mites. They have been Thor and Willmann (1941) redescribed and reported to feed on other small arthropods, provided drawings of Coleoscirus simplex, C. including harmful mites and soft bodied in- brevicornis, C. curtipalpis, C. halacaroides, sects (Nesbsitt 1946; Lord 1949; Schruft and C. curtipalpis (as C. corniculatus). Baker 1971; Kuznetzov and Sizova 1978; Youssef et and Hoffmann (1948) redescribed and provid- al. 1980; Smiley 1992) and nematodes (Walter ed the drawings of C. curtipalpis, C. and Kaplan 1991). Cunaxidae occupy diverse brevicornis, and C. simplex. They also de- habitats and have been reported from all parts scribed and gave drawings of a new species, of the world (Walter and Kaplan 1991; Swift Cunaxa mexicana (= Coleoscirus mexicanus 1996; Walter 1999; Arbabi et al. 2002; Tagore Baker & Hoffmann, 1948) from Mexico and and Putatunda 2003; de-Oliveira and Daemon the U.S.A. 2003; Tagore and Putatunda 2003; Sionti 2003; Sergeyenko 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011; Smiley (1975) provided a new genus name, Mejia-Recamier and Palacios-Vargas 2007; Pseudocunaxa, for species related to and in- Corpuz-Raros 2007; Kaluz 2009; Den Heyer cluding Coleoscirus simplex.. This new genus 2011; Skvarla et al. 2011; Skvarla and name is a synonym of Coleoscirus Berlese, Dowling 2012). 1916 (Den Heyer 1980a). Den Heyer (1979) described two new species, C. tuberculatus Coleoscirinae was erected by Den Heyer and C. magdalenae, from Africa and gave a (1979). It encompasses two tribes (Cole- key for these two species. Den Heyer (1980a) oscirini and Neoscirulini) and six genera described three new species, Coleoscirus (Neoscirula Den Heyer, Pseudobonzia Smi- coatesi, C. buartus, and C. breslauensis, and ley, Coleobonzia Den Heyer & Castro, prepared a comprehensive key. Den Heyer Coleoscirus Berlese, Orangescirula Bu & Li, (1980b) included the genus Coleoscirus in the and Scutascirus Den Heyer). Ninety-one spe- subfamily Coleoscirinae, in his new tribe Col- cies have thus far been described in this eoscirini, along with the genus Scutascirus. subfamily (Den Heyer 2011). Neoscirula, He mentioned the genus Pseudocunaxa Smi- which Smiley (1992) transferred to Bonzinae ley, 1975 as synonym of genus Coleoscirus. based on characteristics of the hypostomal Tseng (1980) erected a new genus, Lapicu- setae, has recently been placed back into Col- naxa, with Lapicunaxa horidula as its type eoscirinae (Den Heyer 2011). species. Berlese (1916) erected the genus Coleoscirus Den Heyer (1979) synonymized Pseudocu- and included two species, C. halacaroides and naxa with Coleoscirus. Chaudhri and Akbar C. corniculatus, in it. Den Heyer (1978) syn- (1985) and Inayatullah and Shahid (1993) ap- onymized Coleoscirus corniculatus with parently missed that publication or did not Scirus curtipalpis. Berlese (1916) designated agree with it and described species in the ge- Coleoscirus halacaroides as the type species nus Pseudocunaxa. In 1992, Smiley gave the of genus Coleoscirus, in spite of an earlier de- new classification system for Cunaxidae fami- scribed species, Coleoscirus curtipalpis ly, as he synonymized Pseudocunaxa and (Berlese 1888). Ewing (1917) described a new Lapicunaxa with Coleoscirus and described Journal of Insect Science | http://www.insectscience.org 2 Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 14 | Article 82 Bashir et al. 11 species of this genus, including the species using an ocular grid. The identification of the of Chaudhri and Akbar (1985). Later, Mu- species was done with the help of existing hammad and Chaudhri (1992a, b) and Bashir keys and literature. The setal nomenclature of et al. (2006, 2008) contributed to the fauna of Kethley (1990) has been adopted. All the this genus from Pakistan. measurements (in µm) and ranges are given in the description. The following abbreviations The genus Pseudobonzia was erected by Smi- are used in this manuscript: ley (1975). He designated Cunaxa reticulata Heryford as its type species. Den Heyer asl: attenuate solenidion (1977) described six new species from the bsl: blunt ended solenidion Ethiopian region and placed this genus in the sts: simple tactile setae subfamily Coleoscirinae (Den Heyer 1980b). T: trichobothrium Later, Den Heyer (1980a), Luxton (1982), Peo: cunaxid peg organ on tarsi I Liang (1984), Sepasgosarian (1984), Chaudhri and Akbar (1985), Michocka (1987), Smiley Nomenclature (1992), and Bashir et al. (2008) made signifi- This publication and the nomenclature it con- cant contributions to the fauna of this genus tains have been registered in Zoobank. The worldwide. LSID number is: The genus Scutascirus was erected by Den urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:13C6436F-7557- Heyer (1976). He designated Scutascirus pol- 439D-B4A1-A7C8F07D3530 yscutosus as its type species. Den Heyer (1979, 1980a), Sepasgosarian (1984), It can be found online by inserting the LSID Chaudhri and Akbar (1985), Smiley (1992), number after www.zoobank.org/ and Lin et al. (2001) have contributed to the knowledge of Cunaxidae. Results and Discussion Materials and Methods Key to genera of the subfamily Coleosciri- nae (Smiley, 1992) Sieve collection was used for field collecting. 1) Ventral idiosoma with sub triangular The plant parts, such as leaves, twigs, and in- plate adjacent to ventrolateral coxal and geni- florescences, were beaten on a sieve held over tal plates-----------------Scutascirus Den Heyer a white piece of paper. Cunaxids were sorted - Ventral idiosoma without sub triangu- with the help of a magnifying lens and stored lar plate