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
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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).