Andregamasus branchiophilus Costa , 1972

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4112 (1), pp. 1-299 : 238

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scientific name	Andregamasus branchiophilus Costa , 1972
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Andregamasus branchiophilus Costa, 1972

Andregamasus branchiophilus Costa, 1972: 44 .

Andregamasus branchiophilus .— Karg, 1986: 47.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: British Museum (Natural History), London, England.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Dahab, Gulf of Aqaba, on Coenobita scaveola (Animalia: Paguridae ). NOTE: this species and the two following belong to the genus Andregamasus Costa, 1965 . Costa (1965) provisionally placed this genus in the Laelapidae , but later ( Costa, 1972) pointed out its similarities with the Phytoseioidea and the Otopheidomenidae , while Karg (1986) placed Andregamasus in Podocinidae . Dowling & OConnor (2010) mentioned an unidentified species of this genus as an Ascidae sensu stricto, reporting its close molecular relation with Gamasellodes . We consider it possible that these species are highly modified members of the Blattisociidae , but that cannot be confirmed because the spermathecal structures of Andregamasus have not been described.