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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-11-30
Page range: 298-300
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Validation of the names of four species of laelapid mites (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) parasitic on sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CONICET-UNLP). Bv. 120 s/n e/ 60 y 64, 1900 La Plata, Argentina. Corresponding author.
Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CONICET-UNLP). Bv. 120 s/n e/ 60 y 64, 1900 La Plata, Argentina. Corresponding author.
Rodentia

Abstract

Savchenko & Lareschi (2019) and Lareschi (2020) described four new species of mites in the family Laelapidae. However, the papers were published in electronic form only and were not registered in ZooBank. They do not satisfy Article 8.5.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 2012), so the new names are not available from those papers. Therefore, the aim of the present note is to validate the names Laelaps schatzi, Androlaelaps azarae, Androlaelaps montensis and Androlaelaps cursor. Type specimens of the four new species are deposited in the Colección de Entomología, Museo de la Plata, Argentina.

 

References

  1. ICZN (2012) Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 69, 161–169. https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v69i3.a8.161
    Lareschi, M. (2020) Three new species of Laelapidae mites (Mesostigmata) parasitic of species of Akodon (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) on the basis of female, male and deutonymph specimens. Veterinary Parasitology, Regional Studies and Reports, 22, 100500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vprsr.2020.100500
    Savchenko, E. & Lareschi, M. (2019) A new species of Laelaps Koch, 1836 (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) parasitic of the sigmodontine rodent Oligoryzomys flavescens Waterhouse, 1837 (Rodentia: Cricetidae): Molecular and morphological characterization. Acta Tropica, 199, 105146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105146