Brachylaelaps Berlese, 1910 (Neoparasitidae)

MAŠÁN, PETER & HALLIDAY, BRUCE, 2014, Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 3776 (1), pp. 1-66 : 49-50

Genus Brachylaelaps Berlese, 1910 (Neoparasitidae)

Brachylaelaps Berlese, 1910b: 371 . Type species Pachylaelaps (Brachylaelaps) rotundus Berlese, 1910 , by original designation.

Notes. There is only one slide bearing the type species Pachylaelaps (Brachylaelaps) rotundus in the Berlese Acaroteca, on slide number 107/47, labelled "tipico". It contains a poor quality male specimen from Java, Indonesia, which can be characterised as having some leg segments strongly armed with spurs (femur II, genu II, tarsus II, trochanters III−IV, femur IV), a long and slim spermatodactyl originating at the middle of the movable digit, and an unusual arrangement of ventral shields, with separate sternitigenital, ventri-anal and peritrematal shields. Its classification among the Pachylaelapidae cannot be established with any confidence until more material is collected. It may be better placed in the Neoparasitidae , perhaps as a synonym of Neoparasitus Oudemans, 1901 , but that cannot be confirmed with the available information.