Gaeolaelaps

Gaeolaelaps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Mesostigmata
Family:	Laelapidae
Genus:	Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till, 1966

Gaeolaelaps is a genus of mite.

The genus was long considered a subgenus of Hypoaspis , but restored to genus level in 2009 to contain species with a denticulate tectum. ^[1]

Species

• Gaeolaelaps aculeifer (Canestrini, 1883)
• Gaeolaelaps angusta (Karg, 1965)
• Gaeolaelaps angustiscutatus (Willmann, 1951)
• Gaeolaelaps deinos (Zeman, 1982)
• Gaeolaelops gillespiei Beaulieu, 2009 ^[1]
• Gaeolaelaps glabrosimilis (Hirschmann, Bernhard, Greim & Gotz, 1969)
• Gaeolaelaps iranicus Kavianpour & Nemati, in Kavianpour, Nemati, Gwiazdowicz & Kocheili, 2013 ^[2]
• Gaeolaelaps kargi (Costa, 1968)
• Gaeolaelaps minor (Costa, 1968)
• Gaeolaelaps nolli (Karg, 1962)
• Gaeolaelaps oreithyiae (Walter & Oliver, 1989)
• Gaeolaelaps praesternalis (Willmann, 1949)
• Gaeolaelaps queenslandicus (Womersley, 1956)

References

1. Beaulieu, Frédéric (2009). "Review of the mite genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Acari: Laelapidae), and description of a new species from North America, G. gillespiei n. sp". Zootaxa. 2158 (1): 33–49. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2158.1.3 .
2. Kavianpour; Nemati; Gwiazdowicz; Kocheili (2013). "A new species of the genus Gaeolaelaps (Acari, Mesostigmata, Laelapidae) from Iran". ZooKeys (277): 1–11. Bibcode:2013ZooK..277....1K. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.277.4741 . PMC   3677369 . PMID   23794820.

External links

• Encyclopedia of Life entry