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Geholaspis (Geholaspis) Berlese 1918

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Subgenus Geholaspis Berlese, 1918

Geholaspis (Geholapsis) aeneus Krauss, 1970 • Original name: Geholaspis (Geholapsis) aeneus Krauss, 1970. • In: Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde, 14: 38. • Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Holostaspis longispinosus Kramer (Halbert, 1915 in part).

Irish Records: Specimen from Halbert collection (Hyatt & Emberson, 1988); soil under Norway spruce

(Heneghan, 1994; Heneghan & Bolger, 1996a); rough grassland (Bolger, in press).

Counties: Kildare, Kilkenny, Mayo.

Geholaspis (Geholaspis) longispinosus (Kramer, 1876)

• Original name: Gamasus longispinosus Kramer, 1876.

• In: Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 42: 100.

• Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Holostaspis longispinosus Kramer (Halbert, 1915 in part),

Macrocheles longispinosus Kramer (Hull, 1918).

Irish Records: moss and under bark of tree (Halbert, 1915); pasture (Valarasan, 1971); heather, pine shelter bed and pasture on bog (Longworth, 1973); gorse bank at seashore (Purvis, 1982); flood debris, at a weir, in rock crack, moss on bricks and in stream, and rotten beech stump, in turf (Hyatt & Emberson, 1988; Bolger, 1990), in heather and rough grassland (Bolger, in press); fungal sporocarp (O’Connell, 1994; unpublished data); soil under Norway spruce (Heneghan, 1994; unpublished data); soil in oak, ash Sitka spruce

and mixed broadleaf woodlands (unpublished data); soil under Scots pine, moss on oak and Sitka spruce, canopy of oak and Sitka spruce (Arroyo et al., 2010, 2012, 2013a).

Counties: Clare, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Mayo, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow.

Notes

Published as part of Bolger, Thomas, Arroyo, Julio & Piotrowska, Katarzyna, 2018, A catalogue of the species of Mesostigmata (Arachnida, Acari, Parasitiformes) recorded from Ireland including information on their geographical distribution and habitats, pp. 1-220 in Zootaxa 4519 (1) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4519.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2609574

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References

  • Halbert, J. N. (1915) Clare Island survey. 39. Acaridina ii. Terrestrial and marine Acarina. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 31 (39), 45 - 136.
  • Hyatt, K. H. & Emberson, R. M. (1988) A review of the Machrochelidae of the British islands. Bulletin of the British Museum of (Natural History) Zoology, 54, 63 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 17598
  • Heneghan, L. (1994) Studies of soil microarthropod communities, experimentally manipulated by chronic low - level nutrient input, and their impact on some ecological processes. Ph. D. Thesis, University College Dublin, Dublin, 312 pp.
  • Heneghan, L. & Bolger, T. (1996 a) Effects of acid rain components on soil microarthropods: a field manipulation. Pedobiologia, 40, 413 - 438.
  • Hull, J. E. (1918) Terrestrial Acari of the Tyne province. Transactions of the Natural History Society Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle, 5, 13 - 88
  • Valarasan, V. (1971) Ecology of soil arthropods in Irish pasture. Ph. D. Thesis University of Dublin, Dublin, 248 pp.
  • Longworth, T. J. (1973) Some aspects of the ecology of the acari of virgin and reclaimed blanket bog at Glenamoy, Co. Mayo. Ph. D. Thesis, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 76 pp.
  • Purvis, G. (1982) The soil arthropod fauna (Acari and Collembola) of a coastal locality in Southeast Ireland. Journal of Life Sciences Royal Dublin Society, 3, 379 - 396.
  • Bolger, T. (1990) Acari of the families Macrochelidae and Veigaiidae (Mesostigmata) recorded from Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society, 13, 29 - 43.
  • O'Connell, T. (1994) The microarthropod fauna associated with fungal fruiting bodies in woodland - a study of the role of habitat spatial and temporal diversity in determining assemblage structure. Ph. D. Thesis, University College Dublin, Dublin, 259 pp.
  • Arroyo, J., Moraza, M. L. & Bolger, T. (2010) The Mesostigmatid mite (Acari, Mesostigmata) community in canopies of Sitka spruce in Ireland and a comparison with ground moss habitats. Graellsia, 66, 29 - 37. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / graellsia. 2010. v. 66.007