Cosmolaelaps vacua (Michael, 1891)

Laelaps vacua Michael, 1891: 651 .

Hypoaspis vacua .— Singh & Mukharji, 1971: 488; Prasad, 1974; 151; Gupta & Chattopadhyay, 1979: 79; Pramanik & Raychaudhuri, 1981: 20; Gupta & Paul, 1989: 317; Roy, 1991: 750; Sarkar & Sanyal, 1999: 101; Chaudhury et al., 2005: 154; Chaudhury et al., 2012: 2606; Roy et al., 2016: 403.

Cosmolaelaps vacua .— Moraes et al., 2022: 222.

Collection records in India: Varanasi, in soil (Singh & Mukharji, 1971); Budge Budge, near Calcutta, nests of Copsychus saularis ( Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) (Gupta & Chattopadhyay, 1979); West Bengal, in soil (Pramanik & Raychaudhuri, 1981); West Bengal, nests of Copsychus saularis ( Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) and Lonchura malacca ( Passeriformes: Estrildidae) (Gupta & Paul, 1989); Mahabaleshwar, in soil litter (Roy, 1991); Calcutta, soil under wax flower Ervatamia divaricata ( Gentianales: Apocynaceae) (Sarkar & Sanyal, 1999); Kolkata, bird’s nest and cattle shed (Chaudhury et al., 2005); Burdwan, Burdwan District, West Bengal, in bird’s nest (Chaudhury et al., 2012); Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, phoretic on house fly Musca domestica ( Diptera: Muscidae) (Roy et al., 2016).