Pseudoparasitus missouriensis (Ewing)

Joharchi, Omid, Halliday, Bruce, Tolstikov, Andrei V. & Trach, Viacheslav A., 2019, New records and new species of mites from Cuba, with description of a new genus of Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4612 (3), pp. 326-350 : 347

Pseudoparasitus missouriensis (Ewing)

Hyletastes missouriensis Ewing, 1909: 66 .

Gymnolaelaps missouriensis .— Hennessey & Farrier, 1988: 30.

Pseudoparasitus obsoletus Berlese, 1916: 164 (synonymy by Hennessey & Farrier, 1988).

Laelaspis austriacus Sellnick, 1935: 353 (synonymy by Hennessey & Farrier, 1988).

Laelaspis austriacus .— Willmann, 1951: 113.

Gymnolaelaps austriacus .— Hunter, 1961: 680.

Pseudoparasitus austriacus .— Hunter, 1966: 9.

Hypoaspis austriacus .—Hirschmann & Bernhard (in Hirschmann et al.), 1969: 132.

Hypoaspis (Gymnolaelaps) austriacus .— Bregetova, 1977: 526.

Hypoaspis (Laelaspis) austriaca .— Karg, 1979: 101; Tenorio, 1982: 264; Karg, 1989: 120; Karg, 1993b: 161.

Material examined. Two females – Cuba, north of Matanzas Province, from soil and litter.

Remarks. Most of the published information on Pseudoparasitus missouriensis has been published under the name G. austriacus . It has been recorded many times, from North America, Europe and Russia. The species may be recognised by the relatively narrow exopodal plates behind coxa IV, very long and narrow metapodal plates, the very wide rounded genito-ventral shield, and a pair of opisthogastric setae in the soft skin between the genito-ventral and anal shields.