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Laelapidae Berlese

Description

Family Laelapidae Berlese

Five laelapid genera viz. Gaeolaelaps, Gymnolaelaps, Hyperlaelaps, Laelaspis and Stratiolaelaps and two species L. pennatus and S. scimitus are new to the fauna of SA. Previously, three genera viz. Androlaelaps, Cosmolaelaps, Hypoaspis and five species viz A. casali, C. qassimensis, C. simplex, H. dactylifera and H. zaheri were reported (Table 1).

Notes

Published as part of Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, Kamran, Muhammad & Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, 2018, Mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Saudi Arabia (excluding Phytoseioidea), new records and a key to the known species, pp. 373-394 in Zootaxa 4388 (3) on page 379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1188674

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Biodiversity

Family
Laelapidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Taxon rank
family