Cosmolaelaps Berlese

Moreira, Grazielle Furtado, Klompen, Hans & Moraes, Gilberto José De, 2014, Redefinition of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) and description of five new species from Brazil, Zootaxa 3764 (3), pp. 317-346 : 318-320

Cosmolaelaps Berlese

Laelaps (Cosmolaelaps) Berlese, 1903: 13 .

Cosmolaelaps .— Berlese, 1920: 157; Vitzthum, 1929: 22; Bregetova, 1956: 71; Sheals, 1962: 107; Casanueva, 1993: 40; Hunter, 1993: 23; Botelho et al., 2002: 54.

Hypoaspis (Cosmolaelaps) .— Vitzthum, 1941: 762; Schweizer, 1961: 149; Evans & Till, 1966: 160; Bregetova, 1977: 511; Karg, 1979: 71 (in part); Karg, 1981: 213 (in part); Karg, 1988: 509 (in part); Hafez et al., 1982: 3; Karg, 1982: 234; Fouly et al., 1997: 33; Huhta & Karg, 2010: 330 (in part).

Type species. Laelaps claviger Berlese, 1883: 2 .

The most detailed diagnosis of Cosmolaelaps was provided by Evans & Till (1979) in a key to genera of Laelapidae . According to that key, species of this genus have the dorsal shield setae spatulate, cuneiform or scimitar-shaped; opisthonotal region of dorsal shield with one or two pairs of px (referred to as Zx) setae and a total of at least 16 pairs of setae; corniculi relatively short; female genital and anal shields not fused with other shields; palp apotele 2-tined; genu IV typically with nine setae (pl2 absent); chelicerae chelate-dentate and cheliceral digits of similar lengths; metasternal setae not inserted on sternal shield and spermatodactyl free.

The following species are considered in this publication to belong to Cosmolaelaps , and have been considered in the updated diagnosis of the genus to be presented below: C. aciphilus ( Karg, 1987) n. comb. [described as Hypoaspis (C.) aciphila ]; C. acutiscutus Teng, 1982 ; C. alexandrini ( Fox, 1946) [described as Ischnolaelaps alexandrini , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Freire & Moraes (2007)]; C. anserinus ( Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) anserina , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. barbatus n.sp.; C. bengalensis ( Bhattacharyya, 1968) n. comb. [described as H. bengalensis ]; C. bicuspisetosus Willmann, 1953 ; C. bipennatus ( Karg, 2003) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) bipennata ]; C. bispinosus ( Karg, 1997) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) bispinosa ]; C. brevilingua ( Karg, 2006) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) brevilingua ]; C. brevipedestrus ( Karg, 1985) [described as H. (C.) brevipedestra , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. brevistilis ( Karg, 1978) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) brevistilis ]; C. burdwanensis ( Bhattacharyya, 1972) n. comb. [described as H. burdwanensis ]; C. busolii n.sp.; C. calamitus ( Faraji & Halliday, 2009) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) calamitus ]; C. carvalhoi ( Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.) carvalhoi ]; C. cassoidea ( Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) cassoidea , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Freire & Moraes (2007)]; C. chenchuanhoi ( Samšiňák, 1964) n. comb. [described as Stratiolaelaps chenchuanhoi ]; C. chianensis ( Gu, 1990) n. comb. [described as H. chianensis ; senior synonym of H. (C.) hefeiensis Xu & Liang, 1996 , according to Ma (2006)]; C. chini Bai & Gu, 1993 ; C. claviger ( Berlese, 1883) [described as Laelaps claviger , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918); senior synonym of C. bregetovae Piryanik, 1959 , according to Bregetova (1977); of H. (H.) auris Karg, 1965 , according to Costa (1968); of H. (C.) macroanalis Bernhard in Hirschmann et al., 1969, according to Karg (1981)]; C. communis Trägårdh, 1931 ; C. confinisetarum n.sp.; C. crossocauda ( Karg, 2006) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) crossocauda ]; C. cubaensis ( Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) cubaensis , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. cuneifer ( Michael, 1891) [described as L. cuneifer , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918)]; C. cursorius ( Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) cursoria , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. dendrophilus Davydova, 1977 ; C. diversichaetatus Grochovskaya & Huan-Hoe, 1961 ; C. diversus ( Karg, 1994) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) diversa ]; C. euarmatus ( Karg, 1996) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) euarmata ]; C. eucapillatus ( Karg, 2003) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) eucapillata ]; C. euventricosus ( Karg, 1995) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) euventricosa ]; C. furcatoides ( Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) furcatoides ]; C. gladii ( Karg, 1993b) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) gladii ]; C. guoi ( Bai & Ma, 2012) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) guoi ]; C. guttulatus ( Karg, 1978) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) guttulata ]; C. hortensis ( Ishikawa, 1986) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) hortensis ]; C. hrdyi ( Samšiňák, 1961) {described as H. (C.) hrdýi [sic], transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Ma (2005a); senior synonym of H. (C.) shenyangensis Bei, Shi & Yin, 2003 , according to Ma (2006)}; C. inarmatus ( Karg, 1997) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) inarmata ]; C. indicus Bhattacharyya, 1966 [= H. calcuttaensis Bhattacharyya, 1971 , unjustified replacement name]; C. jaboticabalensis n.sp.; C. kassaii ( Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.) kassai ]; C. keni (Hafez, ElBadry & Nasr, 1982) [described as H. (C.) keni , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Zaher, 1986]; C. leeae ( Tseng, 1977) n. comb. [described as H. leeae ]; C. leptochaetes Ma & Lin, 2009 ; C. lepoauris ( Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) lepoauris ]; C. leptolingua ( Karg, 1994) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) leptolingua ]; C. liae Bai & Gu, 1993 ; C. lingua ( Karg, 1987) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) lingua ]; C. lisimilis Ma, 2007 ; C. longanalis ( Karg, 2003) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longanalis ]; C. longocrinitus ( Karg, 2006) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longocrinita ]; C. longodigiti ( Karg, 1979) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longodigiti ]; C. longogenitalis ( Karg, 1978) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) longogenitalis ]; C. longus (Hafez, ElBadry & Nasr, 1882) [described as H. (C.) longus , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Zaher, 1986]; C. lutegiensis Shcherbak, 1971a ; C. mabilogus Rosario, 1981 ; C. machadoi ( Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.) machadoi ]; C. machaeratus ( Domrow, 1957) [described as Haemolaelaps machaeratus ]; C. macrochaetus ( Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) macrochaeta , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. mahuncai ( Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) mahuncai , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. malakutsilyus Rosario, 1981 ; C. masculinus ( Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) masculina , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. mediocuspis ( Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) mediocuspis ]; C. michaeli ( Huhta & Karg, 2010) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) michaeli ]; C. mixta ( Shcherbak, 1971b) n. comb. [described as H. mixta ]; C. multidentatus ( Aswegen & Loots, 1970) n. comb. [described as H. (H.)

multidentatus ]; C. multisetosus Domrow, 1957 ; C. nasosetus ( Karg, 1981) [described as H. (C.) nasoseta , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. neocuneifer ( Evans & Till, 1966) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) neocuneifer ]; C. ningxiaensis Bai & Gu, 1993 ; C. oliveirai n.sp.; C. ornatus ( Berlese, 1903) [described as L. (C.) ornatus , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918)]; C. pahabaeus Rosario, 1981 ; C. panniculus ( Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) pannicula ]; C. paracuneifer ( Gu & Bai, 1992) n. comb. [described as H. paracuneifer ]; C. paravacua Nasr & Nawar, 1989 ; C. parvidentis ( Karg & Schorlemmer, 2009) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) parvidentis ]; C. paulista Freire & Moraes, 2007 ; C. penicillatus ( Karg, 1979) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) penicillata ]; C. pugiocuspis ( Karg, 1981) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) pugiocuspis ]; C. pumili ( Karg, 1988) [described as H. (C.) pumili , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. punyalus Rosario, 1981 ; C. qinghaiensis ( Li, Yang & Yue, 1997) n. comb. [described as H. qinghaiensis ]; C. quasiclaviger Ma & Lin, 2009 ; C. rectangularis Sheals, 1962 ; C. reticulatus ( Xu & Liang, 1996) [described as H. (C.) reticulatus , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Ma (2005b)]; C. retirugi Ma, Yang & Zhang, 2004 ; C. robustochaetes Ma & Lin, 2009 ; C. robustoventralis Ma, 2011 ; C. robustus ( Berlese, 1905) [described as L. (C.) robustus , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Bregetova (1956)]; C. serratus Trägårdh, 1952 ; C. simplex Berlese, 1920 ; C. sorecis ( Li, Zheng & Yang, 1996) n. comb. [described as H. sorecis ]; C. subacutiscutus Bai & Wang, 2005 ; C. subpictus ( Gu & Bai, 1992) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) subpictus ]; C. sungaris ( Ma, 1996) [described as H. sungaris , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Ma (2005)]; C. tetraspinae ( Karg, 1995) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) tetraspinae ]; C. thysanifer Zeman, 1982 ; C. transvaalensis Ryke, 1963 ; C. trifidus ( Pearse, Patterson, Rankin & Wharton, 1936) [described as Seiodes trifidus , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Delfinado & Baker (1975); senior synonym of C. passali Hunter & Mollin, 1964 , according to Delfinado & Baker (1975)]; C. tuberculatus ( Mašán, 1992) n. comb. [described as H. (C.) tuberculata ]; C. ungeri ( Karg, 1985) [described as H. (C.) ungeri , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Farrier & Hennessey (1993)]; C. vacuus ( Michael, 1891) [described as L. vacua , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Hull (1918); senior synonym of H. militiformis Oudemans, 1902 , according to Bregetova (1977); of Laeleps [sic] (C.) styliferus Halbert, 1915, according to Luxton (1998); of H. (C.) serratosimilis Bernhard in Hirschmann et al., 1969, according to Bregetova (1977)]; C. vanmoli ( Loots, 1980) n. comb. [described as H. vanmoli ]; C. wangae Bai & Gu, 1993 ; C. weeversi ( Oudemans, 1926) [described as H. weeversi , transferred to Cosmolaelaps by Strandtmann (1963)].

For the characterisation of the following species, the reported references were used for complementary information, in addition to the original descriptions: Wang & Wang (1991) for C. acutiscutus ; Evans & Till (1966) for C. claviger and C. cuneifer ; Aswegen & Loots (1970) for C. digrediens ; Schweizer (1961) for C. ornatus ; Fouly et al. (1997) for C. simplex ; Evans & Till (1966) for C. vacua and Strandtmann (1963) for C. weeversi .

The following taxa may belong to Cosmolaelaps , but were not considered in the updated generic diagnosis because of the insufficient morphological information available: C. cuneifer var. americanus Berlese, 1904 [described as Laelaps (C.) cuneifer var. americanus ], C. reconditus Berlese, 1905 [described as L. (C.) reconditus ], C. vacuus var. ensiger Berlese, 1904 [described as L. (C.) vacuus var. ensiger ], C. vacuus var. hastiger Berlese, 1920 and C. vacuus var. scalpiger ( Berlese, 1904) [described as L. (C.) vacuus var. scalpiger ].