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Gamasellodes bicolor Berlese 1918

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Gamasellodes bicolor (Berlese, 1918)

Gamasellus (Digamasellus) bicolor Berlese, 1918: 135.

Arctoseius bicolor.— Hirschmann, 1959: 4.

Cyrtolaelaps (Digamasellus) bicolor.— Ryke, 1962c: 91.

Iphidozercon bicolor.— Hirschmann, 1962: 30.

Digamasellus bicolor.— Hirschmann, 1962: 48.

Leioseius (Leioseius) bicolor.— Bernhard, 1963: 105.

Leioseius bicolor.— Karg, 1965: 205; 1971b: 278; 1993: 284; 2007: 131; Lapina, 1976a: 67; Kalúz & Fenďa, 2005: 127; Christian & Karg, 2008: 72; Kontschán & Ujvari, 2013: 81.

Gamasellodes bicolor.— Hurlbutt, 1970: 474; Baker et al., 1976: 63; Bhattacharyya, 1978: 80; Zaher, 1986: 51; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 33; Ostovan & Kamali, 1994: 11; Halliday et al., 1998: 21; Kamali et al., 2001: 7; Bhattacharyya & Sanyal, 2003: 230; Gupta, 2003: 4; Walter, 2003: 3; Gwiazdowicz & Gulvik, 2005b: 119; Gwiazdowicz & Walter, 2005: 65; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 68; Çakmak et al., 2011: 582; Naghibinejad et al., 2012: 63; Eliaderani et al., 2013: 129.

Gamasellodes (bicolor) bicolor.— Hurlbutt, 1970: 475.

Gamasellus americanus Garman, 1948: 9 (Synonymy with Gamasellodes (bicolor) bicolor by Hurlbutt, 1970: 475; Baker et al., 1976: 63; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 33).

Cyrtolaelaps (Digamasellus) americanus.— Ryke, 1962c: 106.

Gamasellodes americanus.— Hurlbutt, 1967: 498; Bhattacharyya & Sanyal, 2003: 230.

Gamasellodes (bicolor) americanus (sic).— Hurlbutt, 1970: 475.

Digamasellus circuliformis Leitner, 1949: 59 (Synonymy of G. (D.) bicolor by Bernhard, 1963: 105; Hurlbutt, 1970: 475; Karg, 1971b: 280; 1993: 284; Baker et al., 1976: 63; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 33).

Arctoseius circuliformis.— Hirschmann, 1951: 176; Sellnick, 1958: 23

Cyrtolaelaps (Digamasellus) circuliformis.— Ryke, 1962c: 108.

Gamasellodes circuliformis.— Hurlbutt, 1967: 498.

Gamasellodes major Athias-Henriot, 1961: 486 (Synonymy of G. bicolor by Hurlbutt, 1970: 475; Baker et al., 1976: 63; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 33).

Gamasellodes major.— Hirschmann, 1962: 48; Walter, 2003: 3; Gwiazdowicz & Walter, 2005: 65.

Leioseius major.—Karg, 2007: 131.

Digamasellus shealsi Costa, 1962: 486 (Synonymy of G. bicolor by Hurlbutt, 1970: 475; Baker et al., 1976: 63; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 33).

Digamasellus shealsi.— Hirschmann, 1962: 48.

Gamasellodes shealsi.— Hurlbutt, 1967: 498.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of G. bicolor: Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Firenze, Italy; of G. americanus: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Connecticut, USA; of D. circuliformis: not stated; of D. shealsi: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; of G. major: Laboratoired’Acarologie, l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of G. bicolor: Firenze, Italy, in humus of a vegetable garden; of G. americanus: Mount Carmel, Connecticut, USA, on bark of apple trees (Plantae: Rosaceae); of D. circuliformis: Admont, Austria, in manure; of D. shealsi: Israel, in nest of the mole-rat Spalax ehrenbergi (Animalia: Spalacidae); of G. major: Cuesta del Ralo Salcedo, Pontevedra, Spain, in moss on bark.

NOTE: Gwiazdowicz & Halliday (2008: 66) questioned the correct generic placement of G. (D.) bicolor.

Notes

Published as part of De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-299 in Zootaxa 4112 (1) on pages 110-111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4112.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/399477

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