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Gaeolaelaps aculeifer

  • 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

Gaeolaelaps aculeifer (Canestrini, 1884)

Laelaps aculeifer Canestrini, 1884: 698.

Hypoaspis aculeifer.— Bhattacharyya, 1968: 540; Nangia & ChannaBasavanna, 1989: 244; Sandhu et al., 2005: 278; Jain et al., 2005: 125; Moraes et al., 2022: 242.

Hypoaspis aculifer (sic).— Ahmed et al., 2020: 753; Parveen & Gupta, 2020b: 18.

Collection records in India: Karnataka, in stored food (Nangia & ChannaBasavanna, 1989); Hisar, Haryana, in stored grain (Sandhu et al., 2005; Jain et al., 2005); India, in mushroom culture (Parveen & Gupta, 2020b); Assam, soil in tea plantation (Ahmed 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 pages 406-407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572

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References

  • Canestrini, G. (1884) Acari nuovi o poco noti. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Series 6, 2, 693 - 724, pls. VI - IX.
  • Bhattacharyya, S. K. (1968) Studies on Indian mites (Acarina: Mesostigmata). 6. Six records and descriptions of nine new species. Acarologia, 10, 527 - 549.
  • Nangia, N., Channabasavanna, G. P. & Viraktamath, C. A. (1989) Acarines associated with stored products in Karnataka, India. In: Channabasavanna, G. P. & Viraktamath, C. A. (Eds.), Progress in Acarology, 2, pp. 241 - 248.
  • Sandhu, R., Jain, A. K. & Putatunda, B. N. (2005) New records of mesostigmatid mites of stored food products in Hisar, Haryana. Agricultural Science Digest, 25, 278 - 280.
  • Jain, A. K., Putatunda, B. N. & Sandhu, R. (2005) Taxonomic study of mesostigmatid mites associated with stored products in Hisar (Haryana), India. Bionature, 25, 123 - 129.
  • Moraes, G. J. de, Moreira, G. F., Freire, R. A. P., Beaulieu, F., Klompen, H. & Halliday, B. (2022) Catalogue of the free-living and arthropod-associated Laelapidae Canestrini (Acari: Mesostigmata), with revised generic concepts and a key to genera. Zootaxa. [in press]
  • Ahmed, R., Gupta, S. K., Roy, S. & Bora, D. (2020) Diversity and seasonal variation of mesostigmatid mites in three tea gardens of Assam (India) with different agro-practices. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 122, 750 - 756. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.122.4.750
  • Parveen, R. & Gupta, S. K. (2020 b) A compendium on mushroom mites in India. Bionotes, 22 (1), 11 - 20.