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Oudemans
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: 29
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species
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<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824CCEFD28FC6DFD55" box="[685,899,655,677]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Laelaps meridionalis</emphasis>
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G. &amp;
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, by original designation.
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Palp tarsal claw with two large tines and a small third tine; exopodal plate behind coxa IV large and triangular, not fused with peritrematal shields; genital shield large, with 45 pairs of setae including two pairs on the surface of the shield; shield without strong Λ-shaped lines; anal shield free; distinct pre-sternal plates present; idiosomal setae usually smooth; chelicera of female chelate-dentate; genu and tibia I normally with three ventral setae, genu II with two ventral setae.
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Unfortunately
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did not provide a detailed description of
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or its
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species. The
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species,
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<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824C3FFC0EFCA7FC31" box="[604,841,937,961]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Laelaps meridionalis</emphasis>
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G. &amp;
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, is very poorly known. The original description is brief, and both the description and illustrations lack some important details, especially concerning the setae on the genitoventral shield. The species has never been fully re-described, and the
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have apparently been lost. The brief re-description and illustrations by Berlese (1886) are also very incomplete.
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considered that
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.
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Berlese, 1921
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might be a synonym of
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.
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. However, this seems unlikely, because the shape of the genitoventral shield in these two species is very different. The genitoventral shield in
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.
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is very wide, with lateral edges that project beyond the outer margins of coxae IV. In
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.
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, the genitoventral shield is much narrower, as Berlese specifically pointed out when he described
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.
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. Our concept of the genus is based on that of
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and includes all of his species, except that we place
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and
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Hunter,
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in the genus
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<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824B7CFB4AFF28FAD9" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Gymnolaelaps</emphasis>
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, because all the genitoventral setae are on the extreme edges of the genitoventral shield.
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is distinguished from
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by the presence of two pairs of setae on the surface of the genital shield, well inside the edges of the shield. The differences between
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and the other genera discussed here are summarised in
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.
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<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824EA6FA06FE6EFA49" box="[197,384,1441,1465]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Pseudoparasitus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824EA6FA06FE6EFA49" box="[197,384,1441,1465]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Pseudoparasitus</emphasis>
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is a cosmopolitan genus of about 20 species (
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824DEAFA06FBCFFA49" author="Hunter" box="[905,1057,1441,1465]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Hunter, P. E. (1966) Some mites of the genus Pseudoparasitus Oudemans, 1902 (Acarina: Laelaptidae). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society, 1, 1 - 20." type="journal article" year="1966">Hunter, 1966</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824A4DFA05FAE4FA49" author="Evans" box="[1070,1290,1441,1465]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Evans, G. O. &amp; Till, W. M. (1966) Studies on the British Dermanyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Part II. Classification. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 14 (5), 109 - 370." type="journal article" year="1966">Evans &amp; Till, 1966</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824B75FA05FA79FA49" author="Karg" box="[1302,1431,1441,1466]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Karg, W. (1981) Zur Kenntnis der Raubmilbengattung Pseudoparasitus Oudemans, 1902. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 28, 209 - 220." type="journal article" year="1981">Karg, 1981</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824EF4FA62FF0FFA2D" author="Karg" box="[151,225,1477,1501]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Karg, W. (1989 b) Neue Raubmilbenarten der Gattung Pseudoparasitus Oudemans, 1902 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Acarologia, 30, 333 - 339." type="journal article" year="1989" yearSuffix="b">1989b</bibRefCitation>
). Species of
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824F0DFA62FDC7FA2D" box="[366,553,1477,1501]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Pseudoparasitus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824F0DFA62FDC7FA2D" box="[366,553,1477,1501]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Pseudoparasitus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are found in soil and litter, often associated with ornamental plants, and in that situation they have been intercepted in quarantine (
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824CADFA4EFC88F9F1" author="Hunter" box="[718,870,1513,1537]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Hunter, P. E. (1966) Some mites of the genus Pseudoparasitus Oudemans, 1902 (Acarina: Laelaptidae). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society, 1, 1 - 20." type="journal article" year="1966">Hunter, 1966</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824D1AFA4EFBB4F9F1" box="[889,1114,1513,1537]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Nemati, A. R., Mossadegh, M. S. &amp; Kamali, K. (2000) Some mites the Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) collected from ant and termite nests in Ahwaz Region, Khuzestan Province. In: Abstracts, 14 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, Isfahan University of Technology, September 2000, Volume 1, p. 381." type="journal article">
Nemati
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824DB1FA4DFBECF9F1" box="[978,1026,1513,1537]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">et al</emphasis>
. (2000)
</bibRefCitation>
reported four named species from
<collectingCountry id="83B128D3FFE0FF824EB4F9A9FEEAF9D5" box="[215,260,1550,1573]" name="Iran" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Iran</collectingCountry>
under the name
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824FABF9AAFCACF9D5" authority="(Gymnolaelaps)" baseAuthorityName="Gymnolaelaps" box="[456,834,1549,1573]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Pseudoparasitus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824FABF9AAFD6DF9D5" box="[456,643,1549,1573]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Pseudoparasitus</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824CF6F9AAFCD9F9D5" box="[661,823,1549,1573]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Gymnolaelaps</emphasis>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Of these, we consider that
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824AE4F9A9FF21F9B9" authority="Womersley, 1956" authorityName="Womersley" authorityYear="1956" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Gymnolaelaps" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vitzthumi">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824AE4F9A9FB76F9D5" box="[1159,1176,1550,1573]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824ACBF9AAFAE0F9D5" box="[1192,1294,1549,1573]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">vitzthumi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824B7BF9AAFF21F9B9" author="Womersley" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Womersley, H. (1956) On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 42, 505 - 599." type="journal article" year="1956">Womersley, 1956</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is a species of
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824F1EF996FE07F9B9" box="[381,489,1585,1609]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Laelaspis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824F1EF996FE07F9B9" box="[381,489,1585,1609]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Laelaspis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824C4BF995FC79F9B9" authority="Berlese, 1923" authorityName="Berlese" authorityYear="1923" box="[552,919,1585,1609]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Hypoaspis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hospes">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824C4BF995FD1CF9B9" box="[552,754,1585,1609]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Hypoaspis hospes</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824C99F996FC79F9B9" author="Berlese" box="[762,919,1585,1609]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Berlese, A. (1923) Centuria sesta di Acari nuovi. Redia, 15, 237 - 262." type="journal article" year="1923">Berlese, 1923</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824DC0F995FAE5F9B9" authority="Womersley, 1956" authorityName="Womersley" authorityYear="1956" box="[931,1291,1585,1609]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Gymnolaelaps" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="australicus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824DC0F995FC5AF9B9" box="[931,948,1586,1609]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824DA0F996FBAEF9B9" box="[963,1088,1585,1609]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">australicus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824A24F996FAE5F9B9" author="Womersley" box="[1095,1291,1585,1609]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Womersley, H. (1956) On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 42, 505 - 599." type="journal article" year="1956">Womersley, 1956</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824B20F996FE3FF99D" authority="Michael, 1891" authorityName="Michael" authorityYear="1891" class="Arachnida" family="Ascidae" genus="Laelaps" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="myrmophilus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824B20F996FEC7F99D" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Laelaps myrmophilus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824F53F9F2FE3FF99D" author="Michael" box="[304,465,1621,1645]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Michael, A. D. (1891) On the association of gamasids with ants. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 43, 638 - 653 + Plates XLIX - L." type="journal article" year="1891">Michael, 1891</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
all belong to
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824C0AF9F2FCE5F99D" box="[617,779,1621,1645]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Gymnolaelaps" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824C0AF9F2FCE5F99D" box="[617,779,1621,1645]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">Gymnolaelaps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a separate genus.
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824D97F9F2FB5CF99D" author="Fathipour" box="[1012,1202,1621,1645]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Fathipour, Y. (1994) Soil Mites Fauna in Orchards of Tabriz and Population Fluctuation and Abundance of Important Species. M. Sc. thesis, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran, 172 pp." type="book" year="1994">Fathipour (1994)</bibRefCitation>
reported the Neotropical species
<taxonomicName id="3CA613C0FFE0FF824F51F9DDFDBBF961" authority="Karg, 1989" authorityName="Karg" authorityYear="1989" box="[306,597,1657,1682]" class="Arachnida" family="Laelapidae" genus="Pseudoparasitus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Mesostigmata" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porulatus">
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824F51F9DDFEAEF961" box="[306,320,1658,1681]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824F32F9DEFE52F961" box="[337,444,1657,1681]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">porulatus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824FA4F9DDFDBBF961" author="Karg" box="[455,597,1657,1682]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Karg, W. (1989 b) Neue Raubmilbenarten der Gattung Pseudoparasitus Oudemans, 1902 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Acarologia, 30, 333 - 339." type="journal article" year="1989" yearSuffix="b">Karg, 1989b</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from
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, and this record was catalogued by
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824A10F9DEFA8CF961" box="[1139,1378,1657,1681]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Kamali, K., Ostovan, H. &amp; Atamehr, A. (2001) A Catalog of Mites &amp; Ticks (Acari) of Iran. Islamic Azad University Scientific Publication Center, 196 + 7 pages." type="book">
Kamali
<emphasis id="C9D2B451FFE0FF824AB3F9DDFAEAF961" box="[1232,1284,1657,1681]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="32">et al</emphasis>
. (2001)
</bibRefCitation>
. The description of this species in
<bibRefCitation id="9F3715B2FFE0FF824FB8F93AFD77F945" author="Fathipour" box="[475,665,1693,1717]" pageId="10" pageNumber="32" refString="Fathipour, Y. (1994) Soil Mites Fauna in Orchards of Tabriz and Population Fluctuation and Abundance of Important Species. M. Sc. thesis, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran, 172 pp." type="book" year="1994">Fathipour (1994)</bibRefCitation>
refers to four pairs of setae on the genital shield, but the accompanying illustration shows only three. Unfortunately those specimens have now been lost, so these observations can not be confirmed. In view of the ambiguity in the description, we believe that record is probably a misidentification of some other species.
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