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Androlaelaps casalis

  • 1. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India pritha. bandyopadhyay 31 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2450 - 7880
  • 2. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India kkbckv 64 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5582 - 3560
  • 3. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Description

Androlaelaps casalis (Berlese, 1887)

Iphis casalis Berlese, 1887a: 8.

Haemolaelaps casalis.— Alwar & Lalitha, 1960: 56; Kumar et al., 1989: 170; Bhattacharyya, 1999: 686.

Androlaelaps casalis.— Mitchell et al., 1966: 118; Prasad, 1974: 150; Bhat et al., 1983: 94; Nangia & ChannaBasavanna, 1989: 244; Bhattacharyya, 1999: 686; Sharma, 2002: 59; Gupta & Chatterjee, 2004: 78; Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016: 233; Ahmed et al., 2020: 753; Parveen & Gupta, 2020b: 19; Martin et al., 2020: 189; Moraes et al., 2022: 137.

Collection records in India: Madras, on domestic fowl (Alwar & Lalitha, 1960); Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, on Rattus rattus narbadae and Mus musculus humourus (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mitchell et al., 1966); Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, in house dust (Kumar et al., 1989); Jammu & Kashmir, Baramulla, Sopore, Dehari, Rajouri, Naushera, Himachal Pradesh, Mahasu, Bhadras, Sikkim, Shyari, Gangtok, on Mus musculus (Rodentia: Muridae) and Suncus murinus (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) (Bhat et al., 1983); Karnataka, in stored food (Nangia & ChannaBasavanna, 1989); West Bengal, in bird’s nest (Bhattacharyya, 1999); Dumehar and Shogi, Himachal Pradesh, in Bombus tunicatus hive (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Sharma, 2002); Kolkata, in stored grain (Gupta & Chatterjee, 2004); India, in mushroom culture (Parveen & Gupta, 2020b); Assam, soil in tea plantation (Ahmed et al., 2020); North Kerala, Kanhangad (Kasaragod), dried ginger (Martin et al., 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna & Halliday, Bruce, 2023, Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 5249 (4) on page 402, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572

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References

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