Some soil-inhabiting mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Kazakhstan, with description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Acari: Laelapidae) Author Joharchi, Omid 0000-0002-2741-4946 J. omid 2000 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2741 - 4946 .omid2000@gmail.com Author Issakova, Aigerim K. 0000-0003-1601-9876 isakova. aygerim @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1601 - 9876 isakova.aygerim@gmail.com Author Asyamova, Olga S. 0000-0002-3736-7848 asolya 81 @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3736 - 7848 asolya81@mail.ru Author Sarcheshmeh, Mohammadhassan Abbasi 0000-0003-0893-7327 mo. abbasi 1991 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0893 - 7327 mo.abbasi1991@yahoo.com Author Tolstikov, Andrei V. 0000-0002-8537-038X atolus @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8537 - 038 X atolus@yahoo.com text Zootaxa 2020 2020-07-24 4819 3 473 498 journal article 8947 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.3 fbab4b35-da14-44d9-8ed9-984f7de5f7f4 1175-5326 4440762 04B4CE92-5A0D-4AA7-A599-4016824C9035 Cheiroseius curtipes (Halbert) ( Figures 11–15 ) Lasioseius ( Episeius ) glaber var. curtipes Halbert, 1923: 370 . Sejus curtipes .— Evans & Hyatt, 1960: 59 ; Athias-Henriot, 1961: 448 ; Ishikawa , 1969: 128 ; Karg, 1971: 256 . Cheiroseius curtipes .— Bregetova, 1977: 195 ; Chelebiev, 1988a: 9 ; Chelebiev, 1988b: 71 ; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 31 ; Christian & Karg, 2006: 238 ; Kazemi & Rajaei 2013: 114 ; Moraes et al ., 2016: 141 . Cheiroseius ( Posttrematus ) curtipes .— Karg, 1981: 59 ; 1993: 258 ; Kaluz & Fenďa, 2005: 51 . Specimens examined . Five females, Kostanay Region , Kazakhstan , 53°15ʹN , 66°29ʹE , 5 October 2019 , A.K. Is-sakova coll., from soil (in TSUMZ ) . FIGURES 11–15. DIC micrographs of Cheiroseius curtipes ( Halbert, 1923 ) , female. 11, general view dorsally; 12, idiosoma in dorsal view; 13, idiosoma in ventral view; 14, epistome; 15, sternal shield. Remarks. Cheiroseius curtipes was originally described from wet moss on Lambay Island, Dublin , Ireland ( Halbert, 1923 ). This species has been recorded form nest of the narrow-headed vole (Animalia: Rodentia) from Ka-zakhstan ( Chelebiev, 1988a , b). Our newly collected specimens from soil agree very well with the description given by Evans & Hyatt (1960) for Sejus curtipes and Kaluz & Fenďa (2005) for Cheiroseius ( Posttrematus ) curtipes . This species can be readily recognised by the leg I distinctly shorter than the idiosoma ( Fig. 11 ), claws on tarsus I smaller than claws on legs II–IV ( Fig. 11 ), ventrianal shield bearing four pairs of setae ( Figs 11 & 13 ), lateral margins slightly concave in caudal part ( Fig. 13 ), sternal shield without a M-shaped pattern ( Figs 13 & 15 ) and epistome three-pronged ( Fig. 14 ).