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Genus
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Womersley, 1956a: 534. Type species:
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Womersley, 1956, by original designation.
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<paragraph id="7BE4E8417204426B832B863A8AB319B1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis (adults).</paragraph>
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Soft striate integument delicately incrusted with sclerotic tubercles. Dorsal shield widely oval, not completely covering dorsal surface, reticulate or striate, with 6-7 pairs of distinct protuberances (each bearing a seta), and 29 pairs of setae differing in length and form; setae mounted on protuberances (z4, z5, s5, Z1, Z3, S5, and sometimes z2) markedly longer, thicker, and more heavily pilose than the other setae on the shield. Dorsal shield setae needle-like to lanceolate, smooth, pilose or serrate, the thicker setae densely plumose; sexual dimorphism of dorsal chaetotaxy not developed. In female, sternal setae on sternal shield (st1, st2), soft integument (st3, st4) and epigynal shield (st5). Female with anal shield bearing only three circum-anal setae, male with expanded ventrianal shield capturing some opisthogastric setae. Peritrematal shields and peritremes well developed: anterior end of peritremes reaching or overlapping bases of j1; in male, peritrematal shields well expanded beyond coxae IV and abutting the ventrianal shield. Opisthogastric soft integument with six pairs of setae in female. Corniculi stout, weakly sclerotised, well separate and parallel, with undivided apex having one or two denticles. In female, cheliceral shafts relatively elongate, slender; fixed digit with three prominent sharp teeth (two proximal teeth slightly separated from the other, medial tooth), and a special bilobed tooth close to terminal hook (Plate
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); movable digit only with tiny subapical denticle; cheliceral digits almost straight, not conspicuously hooked distally, without hyaline petal-like appendages. Male spermatodactyl relatively short, directed forward. Palptarsal apotele three-tined. Tibia IV with two posterolateral setae. Tarsi I-IV each with well developed empodium and claws. Insemination apparatus with spermathecal ducts separated.
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<paragraph id="A99AB0FB89855953C57C18AEE057FE78" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
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The genus
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was proposed by
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, with
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<emphasis id="AFFE050E52150D63FDAC9E095B9ACCA0" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Asperolaelaps rotundus</emphasis>
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as its type species, but it has been considered a synonym of
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Vitzthum, 1942, for example by
<bibRefCitation id="AF2E7170F714C432AE892114AD3165B7" author="Domrow, R" journalOrPublisher="Records of the Western Australian Museum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="97 - 116" refId="B45" refString="Domrow, R, 1979. Ascid and ameroseiid mites phoretic on Australian mammals and birds. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 97 - 116" title="Ascid and ameroseiid mites phoretic on Australian mammals and birds." volume="8" year="1979">Domrow (1979)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="904AE9F3873ACBA54172EDDCE5EEF81F" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/IT96010" author="Halliday, RB" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Taxonomy" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="179 - 201" refId="B103" refString="Halliday, RB, 1997. Revision of the Australian Ameroseiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 179 - 201, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/IT96010" title="Revision of the Australian Ameroseiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata)." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/IT96010" volume="10" year="1997">Halliday (1997)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation id="511ACAB07EF7D6D7493914AEC3E30D54" author="Moraes, GJ de" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="37 - 44" refId="B200" refString="Moraes, GJ de, Narita, JPZ, 2010. Description of a new species of Neocypholaelaps (Acari: Ameroseiidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species. Zootaxa 2554: 37 - 44" title="Description of a new species of Neocypholaelaps (Acari: Ameroseiidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species." volume="2554" year="2010">Moraes and Narita (2010)</bibRefCitation>
. Womersley (1956) originally placed it in the family
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but
<bibRefCitation id="D7FFC3FB2A26F79DE14D933B0312EB49" author="Domrow, R" journalOrPublisher="Records of the Western Australian Museum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="97 - 116" refId="B45" refString="Domrow, R, 1979. Ascid and ameroseiid mites phoretic on Australian mammals and birds. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 97 - 116" title="Ascid and ameroseiid mites phoretic on Australian mammals and birds." volume="8" year="1979">Domrow (1979)</bibRefCitation>
re-examined the type species observing the normal complement of 29 pairs of dorsal shield setae instead of the reduced number illustrated by Domrow, and some further features typical of ameroseiid species.
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In this paper, the genus is removed from synonymy with
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, re-diagnosed, and ressurected to accommodate one further species from Australasian Region, namely
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(Karg, 1996). None of these species have been found in association with flowers and their pollinators, as opposed to species of
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, the closest genus. Separate systematic position of
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species can better clarify the concept of
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.
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and
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are considered not to belong to
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<emphasis id="03923FD12789070DFCE0225118C4323C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Neocypholaelaps</emphasis>
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because their diagnostic character states are based on the features inconsistent with
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: (1) fixed digit of chelicera with three sharp teeth in proximal-medial part and a wide bilobed subapical tooth (edentate in
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); (2) chelicera without hyaline appendages (appendages developed in
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); (3) corniculi well separate and parallel to each other (adjacent and convergent in
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); (4) palptarsal claw three-tined (two-tined in
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); (5) some dorsal setae mounted on protuberances, and some with unusual position on the dorsal shield: e.g., Z-series setae with insertions well separate from those in central J-rows and more adjacent to those in marginal S-rows (dorsal shield smooth, with dorsal setae otherwise situated in
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); (6) sexual dimorphism of dorsal setation absent (present in
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); (7) tibia IV with two posterolateral setae (only one posterolateral seta in
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<emphasis id="DD0EE7ED38EE76FE266EB586E2847388" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Neocypholaelaps</emphasis>
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). The dentation of cheliceral digits (together with other characters of gnathosoma) shows important generic difference between
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and
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<emphasis id="7D7A0AC067B76E3C570CF08AAD01E787" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Neocypholaelaps</emphasis>
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, probably due to their specific mode of life and different feeding habits. On the contrary, except for items 1, 5 and 7, the above mentioned character states are well consistent with the genus
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<emphasis id="3CE5556647DB3AF90A84C61312FF6D46" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ameroseius</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="3DA400EAC3C10DDB08EAD8506F59AB6D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Asperolaelaps</emphasis>
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represents a group of species with
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<emphasis id="99A4095C8CBFC5084C95BEC3BE0AEB0D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Neocypholaelaps</emphasis>
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-like venter,
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<emphasis id="6ECB1253F92E0BBE8D331789BE25D592" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Ameroseius</emphasis>
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-like gnathosoma, and specific dorsal chaetotaxy, cheliceral dentation and tibial setation of legs IV.
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<paragraph id="6583C1DE35835656047565235C67C22B" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Examination of the type specimens of
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<emphasis id="EFD366334240E860F0F12920C8C64ED0" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Asperolaelaps rotundus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="1BB8873AE82C109973C63624A603B992" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Asperolaelaps sextuberculi</emphasis>
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confirmed their validity and specific features. They are quite similar species originally reported from the same biogeographic realm, namely from Australia and New Caledonia, respectively. Female of
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<emphasis id="79DCD006CB6EC0BBA3605D7CD1DFDC83" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A. rotundus</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="49860496C791A9BD2FA06B452326244F" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A. sextuberculi</emphasis>
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by having three setae on femur of leg I conspicuously thickened and shortened, conical (pl2, pv1 and pv2; pl2 unusually displaced close to pv2), and by the peritremes with anterior tips touching each other. In
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<emphasis id="33D24EE8D02DE3AA911CBD947E090B37" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A. sextuberculi</emphasis>
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, femur I is relatively narrower and shorter than in previous species, having only normally formed setae, and anterior ends of peritremes separated by insertions of j1.
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