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.