Cosmolaelaps Berlese

Laelaps (Cosmolaelaps) Berlese, 1903: 13 .

Cosmolaelaps .— Berlese, 1920: 157; Vitzthum, 1929: 22; Bregetova, 1956: 71; Sheals, 1962: 107; Casanueva, 1993: 40; Hunter, 1993: 23; Botelho et al., 2002: 54.

Hypoaspis (Cosmolaelaps) .— Vitzthum, 1941: 762; Schweizer, 1961: 149; Evans & Till, 1966: 160; Bregetova, 1977: 511; Karg, 1979: 71 (in part); Karg, 1981: 213 (in part); Karg, 1988: 509 (in part); Hafez et al., 1982: 3; Karg, 1982: 234; Fouly et al., 1997: 33; Huhta & Karg, 2010: 330 (in part).

Type species. Laelaps claviger Berlese, 1883: 2 .

The most detailed diagnosis of Cosmolaelaps was provided by Evans & Till (1979) in a key to genera of Laelapidae . According to that key, species of this genus have the dorsal shield setae spatulate, cuneiform or scimitar-shaped; opisthonotal region of dorsal shield with one or two pairs of px (referred to as Zx) setae and a total of at least 16 pairs of setae; corniculi relatively short; female genital and anal shields not fused with other shields; palp apotele 2-tined; genu IV typically with nine setae (pl2 absent); chelicerae chelate-dentate and cheliceral digits of similar lengths; metasternal setae not inserted on sternal shield and spermatodactyl free.

The following species are considered in this publication to belong to Cosmolaelaps, and have been considered in the updated diagnosis of the genus to be presented below: C. aciphilus (Karg, 1987) n. comb. [described as Hypoaspis (C.) aciphila]; C. acutiscutus Teng, 1982; C. alexandrini (Fox, 1946) [described as Ischnolaelaps alexandrini, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Freire & Moraes (2007)]; C. anserinus (Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) anserina, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. barbatus n.sp.; C. bengalensis (Bhattacharyya, 1968) n. comb. [described as H. bengalensis]; C. bicuspisetosus Willmann, 1953; C. bipennatus (Karg, 2003) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) bipennata]; C. bispinosus (Karg, 1997) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) bispinosa]; C. brevilingua (Karg, 2006) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) brevilingua]; C. brevipedestrus (Karg, 1985) [described as H. (C.) brevipedestra, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. brevistilis (Karg, 1978) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) brevistilis]; C. burdwanensis (Bhattacharyya, 1972) n. comb. [described as H. burdwanensis]; C. busolii n.sp.; C. calamitus (Faraji & Halliday, 2009) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) calamitus]; C. carvalhoi (Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.) carvalhoi]; C. cassoidea (Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) cassoidea, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Freire & Moraes (2007)]; C. chenchuanhoi (Samšiňák, 1964) n. comb. [described as Stratiolaelaps chenchuanhoi]; C. chianensis (Gu, 1990) n. comb. [described as H. chianensis; senior synonym of H. (C.) hefeiensis Xu & Liang, 1996, according to Ma (2006)]; C. chini Bai & Gu, 1993; C. claviger (Berlese, 1883) [described as Laelaps claviger, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918); senior synonym of C. bregetovae Piryanik, 1959, according to Bregetova (1977); of H. (H.) auris Karg, 1965, according to Costa (1968); of H. (C.) macroanalis Bernhard in Hirschmann et al., 1969, according to Karg (1981)]; C. communis Trägårdh, 1931; C. confinisetarum n.sp.; C. crossocauda (Karg, 2006) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) crossocauda]; C. cubaensis (Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) cubaensis, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. cuneifer (Michael, 1891) [described as L. cuneifer, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918)]; C. cursorius (Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) cursoria, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. dendrophilus Davydova, 1977; C. diversichaetatus Grochovskaya & Huan-Hoe, 1961; C. diversus (Karg, 1994) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) diversa]; C. euarmatus (Karg, 1996) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) euarmata]; C. eucapillatus (Karg, 2003) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) eucapillata]; C. euventricosus (Karg, 1995) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) euventricosa]; C. furcatoides (Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) furcatoides]; C. gladii (Karg, 1993b) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) gladii]; C. guoi (Bai & Ma, 2012) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) guoi]; C. guttulatus (Karg, 1978) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) guttulata]; C. hortensis (Ishikawa, 1986) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) hortensis]; C. hrdyi (Samšiňák, 1961) {described as H. (C.) hrdýi [sic], transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Ma (2005a); senior synonym of H. (C.) shenyangensis Bei, Shi & Yin, 2003, according to Ma (2006)}; C. inarmatus (Karg, 1997) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) inarmata]; C. indicus Bhattacharyya, 1966 [= H. calcuttaensis Bhattacharyya, 1971, unjustified replacement name]; C. jaboticabalensis n.sp.; C. kassaii (Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.) kassai]; C. keni (Hafez, ElBadry & Nasr, 1982) [described as H. (C.) keni, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Zaher, 1986]; C. leeae (Tseng, 1977) n. comb. [described as H. leeae]; C. leptochaetes Ma & Lin, 2009; C. lepoauris (Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) lepoauris]; C. leptolingua (Karg, 1994) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) leptolingua]; C. liae Bai & Gu, 1993; C. lingua (Karg, 1987) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) lingua]; C. lisimilis Ma, 2007; C. longanalis (Karg, 2003) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longanalis]; C. longocrinitus (Karg, 2006) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longocrinita]; C. longodigiti (Karg, 1979) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longodigiti]; C. longogenitalis (Karg, 1978) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longogenitalis]; C. longus (Hafez, ElBadry & Nasr, 1882) [described as H. (C.) longus, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Zaher, 1986]; C. lutegiensis Shcherbak, 1971a; C. mabilogus Rosario, 1981; C. machadoi (Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.) machadoi]; C. machaeratus (Domrow, 1957) [described as Haemolaelaps machaeratus]; C. macrochaetus (Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) macrochaeta, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. mahuncai (Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) mahuncai, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. malakutsilyus Rosario, 1981; C. masculinus (Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) masculina, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. mediocuspis (Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) mediocuspis]; C. michaeli (Huhta & Karg, 2010) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) michaeli]; C. mixta (Shcherbak, 1971b) n. comb. [described as H. mixta]; C. multidentatus (Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.)

multidentatus]; C. multisetosus Domrow, 1957; C. nasosetus (Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) nasoseta, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. neocuneifer (Evans & Till, 1966) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) neocuneifer]; C. ningxiaensis Bai & Gu, 1993; C. oliveirai n.sp.; C. ornatus (Berlese, 1903) [described as L. (C.) ornatus, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918)]; C. pahabaeus Rosario, 1981; C. panniculus (Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) pannicula]; C. paracuneifer (Gu & Bai, 1992) n. comb. [described as H. paracuneifer]; C. paravacua Nasr & Nawar, 1989; C. parvidentis (Karg & Schorlemmer, 2009) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) parvidentis]; C. paulista Freire & Moraes, 2007; C. penicillatus (Karg, 1979) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) penicillata]; C. pugiocuspis (Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) pugiocuspis]; C. pumili (Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) pumili, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. punyalus Rosario, 1981; C. qinghaiensis (Li, Yang & Yue, 1997) n. comb. [described as H. qinghaiensis]; C. quasiclaviger Ma & Lin, 2009; C. rectangularis Sheals, 1962; C. reticulatus (Xu & Liang, 1996) [described as H. (C.) reticulatus, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Ma (2005b)]; C. retirugi Ma, Yang & Zhang, 2004; C. robustochaetes Ma & Lin, 2009; C. robustoventralis Ma, 2011; C. robustus (Berlese, 1905) [described as L. (C.) robustus, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Bregetova (1956)]; C. serratus Trägårdh, 1952; C. simplex Berlese, 1920; C. sorecis (Li, Zheng & Yang, 1996) n. comb. [described as H. sorecis]; C. subacutiscutus Bai & Wang, 2005; C. subpictus (Gu & Bai, 1992) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) subpictus]; C. sungaris (Ma, 1996) [described as H. sungaris, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Ma (2005)]; C. tetraspinae (Karg, 1995) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) tetraspinae]; C. thysanifer Zeman, 1982; C. transvaalensis Ryke, 1963; C. trifidus (Pearse, Patterson, Rankin & Wharton, 1936) [described as Seiodes trifidus, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Delfinado & Baker (1975); senior synonym of C. passali Hunter & Mollin, 1964, according to Delfinado & Baker (1975)]; C. tuberculatus (Mašán, 1992) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) tuberculata]; C. ungeri (Karg, 1985) [described as H. (C.) ungeri, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. vacuus (Michael, 1891) [described as L. vacua, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918); senior synonym of H. militiformis Oudemans, 1902, according to Bregetova (1977); of Laeleps [sic] (C.) styliferus Halbert, 1915, according to Luxton (1998); of H. (C.) serratosimilis Bernhard in Hirschmann et al., 1969, according to Bregetova (1977)]; C. vanmoli (Loots, 1980) n. comb. [described as H. vanmoli]; C. wangae Bai & Gu, 1993; C. weeversi (Oudemans, 1926) [described as H. weeversi, transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Strandtmann (1963)].

For the characterisation of the following species, the reported references were used for complementary information, in addition to the original descriptions: Wang & Wang (1991) for C. acutiscutus; Evans & Till (1966) for C. claviger and C. cuneifer; Aswegen & Loots (1970) for C. digrediens; Schweizer (1961) for C. ornatus; Fouly et al. (1997) for C. simplex; Evans & Till (1966) for C. vacua and Strandtmann (1963) for C. weeversi .

The following taxa may belong to Cosmolaelaps, but were not considered in the updated generic diagnosis because of the insufficient morphological information available: C. cuneifer var. americanus Berlese, 1904 [described as Laelaps (C.) cuneifer var. americanus], C. reconditus Berlese, 1905 [described as L. (C.) reconditus], C. vacuus var. ensiger Berlese, 1904 [described as L. (C.) vacuus var. ensiger], C. vacuus var. hastiger Berlese, 1920 and C. vacuus var. scalpiger (Berlese, 1904) [described as L. (C.) vacuus var. scalpiger].