Proctolaelaps afifii nom. nov. ( new replacement name)

Proctolaelaps striatus Afifi, Hassan & El-Bishlawy, 1984: 1216 (preoccupied by Proctolaelaps striata (Westerboer, 1963: 356)) . Proctolaelaps striatus .— Zaher, 1986: 62.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: not stated.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in soil and debris.

ETYMOLOGY: the new name honours the Egyptian acarologist A. M. Afifi.