Neocypholaelaps Vitzthum

Cypholaelaps Berlese, 1918: 117.

Neocypholaelaps Vitzthum, 1942: 763. replacement name for Cypholaelaps (preoccupied) Neocypholaelaps.— Evans, 1963a: 210.

Asperolaelaps Womersley, 1956: 534 (synonymy according to Domrow, 1979). Type species: Laelaps ampullula Berlese, 1910.

The following characterisation of the genus is mostly based on Evans (1963a), with slight modifications to accommodate more recently described species. Cheliceral digits edentate or with a single subapical tooth; fixed digit with a transparent lobed structure, probably representing a modified pilus dentilis; epistome with anterior margin serrated; corniculus undivided, convergent, surrounded by a hyaline membrane. Dorsal shield weakly ornamented, with 28, 30 or, most commonly, 29 pairs of setae, of which j1 is generally stout and always barbed. Sternal shield with two pairs of setae; st3 usually inserted on platelets and st4 inserted on unsclerotised cuticle; opistogastric setae always on unsclerotised cuticle. Peritreme usually extending at least up to level of coxa I (between setae j1 and j2). All legs with pulvillus and a pair of well developed claws; leg chaetotaxy (femur, genu, tibia and tarsi, respectively): leg I: 12, 12, 12, -; leg II: 10, 11, 10, 18; leg III: 6, 9, 8, 18; leg IV: 6, 9, 9, 18.