Pachydellus vexillifer ( Willmann, 1956 )

MAŠÁN, PETER & HALLIDAY, BRUCE, 2014, Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 3776 (1), pp. 1-66 : 25

Pachydellus vexillifer ( Willmann, 1956)

Pachylaelaps (Onchodellus) vexillifer Willmann, 1956: 221 . Type locality: Poland, Czech Republic.

Pachylaelaps (Pachylaelaps) vexillifer .— Karg, 1971: 150.

Pachylaelaps vexillifer . — Hirschmann & Krauss, 1965: 5; Karg, 1993: 123;.

Pachydellus vexillifer . — Mašán, 2007a: 188, 220.

Pachylaelaps purcheri Schweizer, 1961: 103 (in part: female only). Type locality: Switzerland. Synonymy by Mašán (2007a: 217).

Pachylaelaps purcheri .— Hirschmann & Krauss, 1965: 5; Karg, 1993: 123; Mašán, 2007a: 188, 213, 217.

Pachylaelaps (Pachylaelaps) purcheri .— Karg, 1971: 149.

Pachylaelaps cluozzai Schweizer, 1961: 108 . Type locality: Switzerland. Synonymy by Karg (1971: 150), confirmed by Mašán (2007a: 215).

Pachylaelaps cluozzai . — Hirschmann & Krauss, 1965: 5; Mašán, 2007a: 215.

Pachylaelaps stabelchodi Schweizer, 1961: 109 . Type locality: Switzerland. Synonymy by Mašán (2007a: 218).

Pachylaelaps stabelchodi . — Hirschmann & Krauss, 1965: 5; Mašán, 2007a: 218.

Pachylaelaps latus Schweizer, 1961: 112 . Type locality: Switzerland. Junior primary homonym [not Pachylaelaps (Platylaelaps) latus Berlese, 1905: 165 ]. Synonymy by Mašán (2007a: 216).

Pachylaelaps latus . — Hirschmann & Krauss, 1965: 5; Karg, 1993: 128; Mašán, 2007a: 216.

Pachylaelaps (Pachylaelaps) latus .— Karg, 1971: 152.

Pachylaelaps schweizeri new name. Replacement name for Pachylaelaps latus Schweizer, 1961 .

Notes. Schweizer (1961) did not provide a full description of Pachylaelaps purcheri , only some limited morphometric data for the male and female. The female was re-illustrated by Hirschmann & Krauss (1965) and included in identification keys by Karg (1971, 1993). The specimen in Karg’s collection in Berlin identified and labelled by Karg as Pachylaelaps purcheri is a specimen of Pachydellus furcifer . Mašán (2007a) has examined one type male and some appendages of two type females labelled Pachylaelaps purcheri in the Basel Museum. The females were considered to be Pachydellus vexillifer (also based on the specific sculptural pattern of the dorsal shields impressed into the mounting medium), while the male belongs to Pachydellus sculptus . The female illustrated by Hirschmann & Krauss (1965) also appears to belong to Pachydellus vexillifer , but it is not possible to confirm that on the basis of the limited available information.