Gamasholaspis Berlese, 1904

Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 5005 (4), pp. 401-459 : 409

Genus Gamasholaspis Berlese, 1904

Dorsal shield bearing 29 pairs (36 pairs in G. khaoyaiensis ) of long setae, z1 absent except in G. ussuriensis and G. zwartae , most modified or smooth. Pre-sternal area with one pair of elongated pre-sternal platelets (absent in G. malacus ). Sternal shield fused with endopodal, exopodal and peritrematal shield, sometimes endopodal shield free, additionally bearing three pairs of acicular setae st1–3. Metasternal shields free, with one pair of metasternal setae st4 (only fused partially to endopodal shield in G. browningi ). Genital shield longer than wide, with one pair of genital setae st5. Peritrematal shields fused to podal shields or sternal shield. Ventrianal shield narrow or expanded anteriorly, surrounding genital shield laterally, usually with four pairs of smooth pre-anal setae (5–6 pairs in G. malaianus ; 6 pairs in G. khaoyaiensis and G. triangularis ), shield in most species bearing a pair of expulsory vesicles of normal or enlarged size situated posteriorly to coxa IV. Epistome produced into a serrated median process, sometimes with shorter lateral processes. Gnathosoma with corniculi usually longer than movable digits of the chelicerae (slightly shorter in G. triangularis . G. ussurensis and G. zwartae ). Chelicera chelate-dentate, fixed digit with two or more teeth and movable digit with two teeth. Cheliceral seta wedge-shaped (smooth in G. khaoyaiensis ). Males similar to female, except with holoventral shield bearing 9–10 pairs of setae (st1–5 and four-five pairs of preanal setae.