Proctolaelaps lewisi ( Garman & McGregor , 1956)

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 : 215-216

Proctolaelaps lewisi ( Garman & McGregor, 1956)

Garmania lewisi Garman & McGregor, 1956: 7 .

Garmania lewisi .—McGregor, 1956: 7.

Proctolaelaps (Proctolaelaps) lewisi .— Evans, 1958a: 226.

Garmania garmanis McGregor, 1956: 7 (Synonymy with P. (P.) lewisi by Chant in Evans, 1958a: 226; Halliday et al., 1998: 32).

Proctolaelaps garmanis .—Halliday et al., 1998: 32.

Garmania utahensis Chant, 1958: 389 (Synonymy with P. lewisi by Halliday et al., 1998: 32).

Proctolaelaps utahensis .— Chant, 1963: 267.

Proctolaelaps (Proctolaelaps) utahensis .—Karg, 1985: 197; 1988a: 450; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 46.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of G. lewisi: Los Angeles Country Museum, California, USA; accession number 8-21-54; of G. garmanis : not stated; of G. utahensis : United States National Museum, Washington DC, USA. TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of G. lewisi: Irvine , California, USA, on orange [Plantae: Rutaceae ]; of G. garmanis: Piru , California, USA, on orange [Plantae: Rutaceae ]; of G. utahensis: Farmington , Utah, USA, on decayed tomato [Plantae: Solanaceae ] fruits.

NOTES: (a) Lindquist & Hunter (1965: 18) suspected G. lewisi to be a senior synonym of Garmania bickleyi Bram ; (b) Chant (1963: 269), Karg (1985: 192, 1988a: 448) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 42) considered P. lewisi and P. garmanis to be conspecific with G. bickleyi . We adopted the interpretation of Halliday et al. (1998: 32), considering the first two species to be conspecific but different from G. bickleyi .