Blattisocius tarsalis ( Berlese , 1918)

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4112 (1), pp. 1-299 : 135-136

Blattisocius tarsalis ( Berlese, 1918)

Lasioseius (Lasioseius) tarsalis Berlese, 1918: 134 .

Melichares (Blattisocius) tarsalis .— Evans, 1958a: 209; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 162; Hughes, 1961: 235. Blattisocius tarsalis .— Schweizer, 1961: 132; Chant, 1963: 298; Lindquist, 1964a: 186; Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 64; McGraw & Farrier, 1969: 59; Karg, 1971b: 191; 1993: 172; Treat, 1975: 96; Hughes, 1976: 325; Bregetova, 1977b: 226; Haines, 1979: 20; Zaher, 1986: 81; Nasr et al., 1988b: 939; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 30; Ostovan & Kamali, 1994: 12; Halliday, 1998: 118; Halliday et al., 1998: 19; Kamali et al., 2001: 6; Bhattacharyya & Sanyal, 2002b: 171; Gupta, 2003: 3; Christian & Karg, 2006: 239; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 66; Mineiro et al., 2009: 3; Zhang & Fan, 2010: 283; Çakmak et al., 2011: 583; Britto et al., 2012: 50.

Melichares tarsalis .— Hirschmann, 1962: 30.

Seiulus muricatus Koch. — Burkhardt, 1920: 54 and Hase, 1928: 271. Misidentifications of Typhlodromus tineivorus Oudemans according to Vitzthum, in Hase, 1933: 237.

Typhlodromus tineivorus Oudemans, 1929b: 34 (Synonymy of L. (L.) tarsalis by Evans, 1958a: 209; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 162; Westerboer, 1963: 278; Lindquist, 1964a: 187; Haines, 1979: 20; Zaher, 1986: 81; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 30; Halliday et al., 1998: 19).

Typhlodromus tineivorus .— Hase, 1933: 237.

Typhlodromus tineivorans (sic).— Hughes, 1948: 144.

Blattisocius tineivorus .— Nesbitt, 1951: 51; Cunliffe & Baker, 1953: 8; Womersley, 1954: 184; Athias-Henriot, 1957: 333; Hirschmann, 1959: 7.

Blattisocius triodons Keegan, 1944: 181 (Synonymy of B. tineivorus by Nesbitt, 1951: 51; junior synonymy of L. (L.) tarsalis by Evans, 1958a: 209; Lindquist, 1964a: 188; Haines, 1979: 20; Zaher, 1986: 81; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 30; Halliday et al., 1998: 19).

Blattisocius triodons .— Athias-Henriot, 1957: 333.

Lasioseius similis Schweizer, 1949: 49 (Synonymy of L. (L.) tarsalis by Evans, 1958a: 209; Lindquist, 1964a: 188; Schweizer, 1961: 132; Haines, 1979: 20; Zaher, 1986: 81; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 30; Halliday et al., 1998: 19).

Garmania similis .— Westerboer, 1963: 278.

Blattisocius similis .— Christian & Karg, 2006: 239.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of B. tarsalis: Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Firenze, Italy; of T. tineivorus : not stated; of B. triodons : United States National Museum, Washington DC, USA; of L. similis : not stated.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of B. tarsalis: Firenze , Italy, in rotten grass in a stable; of T. tineivorus: Urbana , Illinois, USA, from a colony of Sitotroga cerealella [Animalia: Gelechiidae ]; of B. triodons: Fort Omaha , Nebraska, USA, in debris in cages housing a colony of German cockroaches, Blattella germanica [Animalia: Blattellidae ]; of L. similis: Manaders, Swiss National Park, Switzerland, in spring bottom.