Laelaps ( Cosmolaelaps ) Berlese, 1903a: 13 Soil-inhabiting mites of the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Assiut Governorate, Egypt Joharchi, Omid Negm, Mohamed W. Zootaxa 2020 2020-04-06 4759 4 488 510 Berlese Berlese 1903 [238,505,466,493] Arachnida Laelapidae Cosmolaelaps GBIF Animalia Mesostigmata 3 491 Arthropoda genus      Laelaps( Cosmolaelaps) Berlese, 1903a: 13.   Typespecies  Laelaps claviger Berlese, 1883; by original designation.   Diagnosis.The diagnosis of  Cosmolaelapsused here is based on that of Moreira et al. (2014).   Remarks.Five species of  Cosmolaelapshave been reported from Egyptto date ( Nasr & Momen, 2016). Although Kazemi (2015)transferred the species  Laelaspis badrii Nasr & Nawar, 1989to the genus  Cosmolaelaps, Nasr & Momen (2016)did not consider this change and retained the species under  Laelaspis. We here follow Nasr & Momen (2016)since the species includes the diagnostic character states of  Laelaspis(see Joharchi et al., 2011).