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Issue: Vol. 22: 30 Nov. 2022
Type: Proceedings Papers
Published: 2022-11-30
DOI: 10.11646/zoosymposia.22.1.177
Page range: 282–283
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A new species of the genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from China

Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
Acari Mesostigmata Laelapidae China

Abstract

As members of the family Laelapidae, Gaeolaelaps species are generally acknowledged from litter and edaphic habitats (Joharchi 2019; 2022). The taxonomic history of Gaeolaelaps is complicated and long-term (Halliday & Lindquist 2007). Gaeolaelaps was first defined by Evans and Till (1966) and used to be a subgenus of Hypoaspis (Halliday & Lindquist 2007; Beaulieu 2009). Prior to this paper, the genus Gaeolaelaps consisted of more than 120 described species (Nemati & Mohseni 2013; Kazemi 2020), with 20 species reported from China (Yan et al. 2018). Herein, a new species of Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till, 1966, Gaeolaelaps sp. nov. is described from adult females collected in soil under the Osmanthus trees in Jiangxi Province, China.

 

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