Procaeculus eridanosae, Coineau and Magowski, 1994

Taylor, C. K., Gunawardene, N. R. & Kinnear, A., 2013, A New Species Of Neocaeculus (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) From Barrow Island, Western Australia, With A Checklist Of World Caeculidae, Acarologia 53 (4), pp. 439-452 : 450

† P. eridanosae Coineau and Magowski, 1994

P. magnus Coineau, 1974a

P. mexicanus ( Mulaik and Allred, 1954)

= Caeculus mexicanus Mulaik and Allred,

1954

P. orchidicolis ( Mulaik and Allred, 1954)

= Caeculus orchidicolis Mulaik and Allred,

1954

P. oregonus ( Mulaik and Allred, 1954)

= Caeculus oregonus Mulaik and Allred,

1954

P. potosi ( Mulaik and Allred, 1954)

= Caeculus potosi Mulaik and Allred,

1954

P. puertoricus ( Mulaik, 1945)

= Caeculus puertoricus Mulaik, 1945

P. willmanni ( Vitzthum, 1933)

= Caeculus willmanni Vitzthum, 1933

= Procaeculus aitkeni Coineau, 1967b (see note below)

Names of uncertain status:

Caeculus spathuliger [sic] var. calidior Berlese, 1916 : Berlese proposed this as a possible name for a specimen from Somalia, but declined to formally establish it until further specimens became available for comparison. As this name does not appear to have been used by any subsequent authors, we believe it is best treated as a nomen nudum.

Caeculus hirtipes Berlese, 1910 : The description of this species given by Berlese is probably inadequate for its identification, and Franz (1952) listed it as a species incertae sedis within Caeculidae . Similarly unidentifiable is the form described as C. hirtipes var. graecus Berlese, 1910 .

Notes:

Microcaeculus muscorum: The publication history of Lucas (1846 -1849) has been analysed by Evenhuis (2012). The section including the description of Caeculus muscorum (as Coeculus muscorum ) had most likely been distributed by 15 May 1847.

Procaeculus aitkeni: Despite being described as a new species in Coineau (1969a), a preliminary description of this species had already appeared in Coineau (1967b). Coineau (1969a) noted that this species was uncertainly distinct from Procaeculus willmanni ( Vitzthum 1933) ; though a formal synonymy of the two species was never published, Coineau (1974a) later reproduced figures of P. aitkeni from Coineau (1969a) labelled as P. willmanni .