Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus ( Trouessart, 1897 )

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Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus ( Trouessart, 1897)

Mealia pteronyssina Trouessart , in Berlese 1897: 104.

Mealia pteronyssina Trouessart , in Berlese 1898: 3.

Paralges pteronyssoides Trouessart, 1887: 119 .

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus .— Fain 1966b: 305; Fain et al. 1988: 30; Colloff 2009: 13.

Dermatophagoides pteronyssoides.— Domrow 1992: 1493 .

Host and locality in Australia: House dust, multiple localities ( Colloff 2009: 421–422).

Current name of host: None.

Notes. Fain (1966b) drew attention to the taxonomic and nomenclatural ambiguity surrounding the names Paralges pteronyssoides Trouessart, 1887 , Mealia pteronyssina Trouessart, 1897 , and Dermatophagoides scheremetevskyi Bogdanov, 1864 . Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus ( Trouessart, 1897) is not the oldest available name for this species, but I use it as valid here to conform with overwhelming prevailing usage, as recommended by Colloff (2009) and many other authors.