Abstract
In the Mesostigmata, Laelapidae is a family diverse in ecology and morphology (Babaeian et al., 2019; Moraes et al., 2022; Zhang et al., 2022). It is distributed all over the world (Keum et al., 2017; Joharchi & Halliday 2021), and has many habitats, including soil, the body surface of vertebrates or in their nests, arthropods and parasitic on mammals (Moreira & Moraes 2015; Nemati et al., 2018; Zhang, 2019; Attasopa et al., 2021). Laelapidae has 146 genera and more than 1500 species, including many predatory and parasitic species (Zhang et al., 2022). Some laelapid mites can prey on nematodes, thrips pupae, astigmatic mites, fungus gnat larvae, housefly eggs, mealybug and so on (Carrillo et al., 2015; Ajvad et al., 2018; Pérez-Rodríguez et al., 2018; Castro-López et al., 2021).
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