Protogamasellus mica (Athias - Henriot, 1961)

Rhodacarellus mica Athias-Henriot, 1961: 488 .

Protogamasellus mica .— Karg, 1977b: 409; 1993: 341; 2007: 120; Evans, 1982: 306; Nasr et al., 1988a: 926; Halliday, 1998: 119; Halliday et al., 1998: 40; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 118; Mineiro et al., 2009: 26.

Protogamasellus (Protogamasellus) micus .— Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 47.

Protogamasellus primitivus Karg, 1962: 54 (Synonymy by Evans, 1982: 306; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 47; Karg, 1993: 341; Halliday et al., 1998: 40).

Protogamasellus primitivus .— Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 61; Karg, 1971b: 326; 1977b: 409; 2007: 120.

Protogamasellus primitivus primitivus .— Genis et al., 1967: 339.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of P. mica: Laboratoire d’Acarologie, l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Ètudes, Paris, France; of P. primitivus: Biologischen Zentralanstalt Berlin der Deutschen Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften, Berlin Germany; accession number 491.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of P. mica: Oued Bouzaréah Valley, Alger, Algeria, from soil of Laurus nobilis [Plantae: Lauraceae] forest; of P. primitivus: Versuchsfeld der BZA (Biologischen Zentralanstalt Akademie), Teltow, Germany, in pasture soil.

NOTE: Karg (2007: 116) considered P. primitivus to be distinct from P. mica . We adopted the interpretation of Evans (1982: 306) and Halliday et al (1998: 40), considering them to be conspecific.