Laelaps ( Laelaspis ) 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 [238,451,1683,1710] Arachnida Laelapidae Laelaspis GBIF Animalia Mesostigmata 13 501 Arthropoda genus      Laelaps( Laelaspis) Berlese, 1903a: 13.   Typespecies:  Iphis astronomicus Koch, 1839: 18, by original designation.   Diagnosis. The concept of  Laelaspisused here is based on that of Joharchi et al. (2011, 2012a) and Kazemi (2015).