Stratiolaelaps miles (Berlese, 1892)

Laelaps (Iphis) miles Berlese, 1892a: 9.

Hypoaspis miles .— Bhattacharyya, 1967: 129; Saxena, 1999: 147; Bhat et al., 2003: 95; Ahmed et al., 2020: 753; Parveen & Gupta, 2020b: 18; Martin et al., 2020: 189.

Hypoasyis miles (sic).— Pramanik & Raychaudhuri, 1981: 20.

Hypoaspis berlese (sic).— Mondal & Gupta, 2019: 69.

Hypoaspis berlesei (sic).— Parveen & Gupta, 2020b: 18.

Stratiolaelaps miles.— Moraes et al., 2022: 390.

Collection records in India: Northeast Frontier Agency, pine litter on bank of Tenga River (Bhattacharyya, 1967); West Bengal, in soil (Pramanik & Raychaudhuri, 1981); southern India, on Tatera indica and Bandicota bengalensis ( Rodentia: Muridae) (Saxena, 1999); Jammu & Kashmir, Udhanpur, Phalata, Dehari, Rajauri, Naushera, Himachal Pradesh, Mahasu, Pipty at Rampur, Ratanadi at Baghi, on Mus musculus ( Rodentia: Muridae), Suncus murinus (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae), Herpestes edwardsi ( Carnivora: Herpestidae) (Bhat et al., 1983); south 24 Parganas District, West Bengal, in mushroom bed (Mondal & Gupta, 2019); India, in mushroom culture (Parveen & Gupta, 2020b); Assam, soil in tea plantation (Ahmed et al., 2020); North Kerala, Pappinissery (Kannur), dried ginger (Martin et al., 2020).

Notes: (1) Parveen & Gupta (2020b) recorded “ Hypoaspis berlesei (Oudemans) ” from mushrooms in West Bengal, and cited Mondal & Gupta (2019) as the source of that information. We are not aware of any species of Laelapidae with the specific name berlesei described by Oudemans. Mondal & Gupta (2019) recorded “ Hypoaspis berlese ”, in turn referring to a similar observation by Hoda et al. (1986). The paper by Hoda et al. (1986) is an account of the biology of Hypoaspis miles, so we believe Parveen & Gupta’s (2020b) record of “ Hypoaspis berlesei (Oudemans) ” should have referred to Hypoaspis miles. (2) Walter & Campbell (2003) drew attention to the difficulty in identifying Stratiolaelaps miles. Some or all of the Indian records may actually represent Stratiolaelaps scimitus (Womersley, 1956) .