Arctoseius semiscissus (Berlese, 1892)

Laelaps (Iphis) semiscissus Berlese, 1892: 7 .

Arctoseius (Arctoseiulus) semiscissus .— Willmann, 1949b: 357.

Arctoseius semiscissus .— Willmann, 1949b: 349; Evans, 1958a: 223; Karg, 1971b: 265; 1993: 263; Pinchuk, 1976: 55; Bregetova, 1977a: 204; Makarova & Petrova, 1992: 37; Halliday, 1998: 117; Halliday et al., 1998: 16; Makarova, 2000c: 914; 2000d: S138; Gwiazdowicz & Gulvik, 2005b: 119; Kalúz & Fenďa, 2005: 94; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 128; Christian & Karg, 2008: 72; Çakmak et al., 2011: 581; Bai, 2013: 96; Bai & Ma, 2013: 86; Mašán, 2014: 400.

Laelaps semiscissus .— Hirschmann, 1962: 48.

Leioseius (Arctoseius) semiscissus .— Bernhard, 1963: 151; Lapina, 1976a: 71.

Leioseius semiscissus .— Westerboer, 1963: 278.

Arctoseius (?) (Arctoseiopsis) semiscissus .— Athias-Henriot, 1973b: 230.

Arctoseius bispinatus Weis-Fogh, 1948: 255 (Synonymy by Bernhard, 1963: 151; Karg, 1971b: 273).

Arctoseius bicuspidatus Willmann, 1949b: 355 (Synonymy by Halliday et al., 1998: 16).

Arctoseius (Arctoseius) bicuspidatus .— Willmann, 1949b: 358.

Arctoseius bicuspidatus .— Nesbitt, 1954: 22.

Leiosius (Arctoseius) bicuspidatus .— Bernhard, 1963: 156.

Arctoseius limburgensis Nesbitt, 1954: 20 (Synonymy by Halliday et al., 1998: 16). Arctoseius limburgensis .— Hirschmann, 1962: 49.

Leioseius (Arctoseius) limburgensis .— Bernhard, 1963: 163.

Arctoseius sellnicki Karg, 1962: 45 (Synonymy by Bernhard, 1963: 151; Karg, 1971b: 273; Halliday et al., 1998: 16).

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of A. semiscissus: Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Firenze, Italy; of A. bicuspidatus: not stated; of A. limburgensis: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; of A. sellnicki: Biologischen Zentralanstalt Berlin der Deutschen Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften, Berlin Germany; accession number 769.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of A. semiscissus: Firenze, Italy, in rotten substrate; of A. bicuspidatus: Aschaffenburg, Baviera, Germany, in groundwater; of A. limburgensis: Castle grounds, Neercanne, Limburg, The Netherlands, on Agaricus campester [Fungi: Agaricaceae]; of A. sellnicki: Versuchsfeld der BZA (Biologischen Zentralanstalt Akademie), Teltow, Germany, in pasture soil.

NOTES: (a) Hirschmann (1962: 48) considered Gamasellus (Digamasellus) eremita Berlese to be a senior synonym of A. bicuspidatus Willmann, but this interpretation is not accepted in this publication; (b) Bernhard (1963: 151) suspected L. (I.) semiscissus to be a senior synonym of Lasioseius cetratus Sellnick; (c) Karg (1971b: 273) considered A. bispinatus to be a junior synonym of both A. cetratus and A. semiscissus . We adopted the interpretation of Evans (1955: 289), considering it to be a junior synonym of A. cetratus; (d) Lindquist (1963: 93; 1964b: 3895) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 24) considered Arctoseius limburgensis Nesbitt, 1954 to be a junior synonym of Arctoseius cetratus (Sellnick) . We adopted the interpretation of Halliday et al. (1998: 16), considering it a junior synonym A. semiscissus .