Proctolaelaps afifii Moraes, Britto, Mineiro & Halliday

Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2016, Proctolaelaps species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Melicharidae) from Egypt, with description of a new species and complementary descriptions of other five species, Zootaxa 4162 (3), pp. 479-503 : 483

Proctolaelaps afifii Moraes, Britto, Mineiro & Halliday

Proctolaelaps afifii Moraes, Britto, Mineiro & Halliday, 2016: 204 . Proctolaelaps striatus Afifi, Hassan & El-Bishlawy, 1984: 1216 (secondary homonym of Proctolaelaps striatus (Westerboer, 1963)) .

Proctolaelaps striatus .— Zaher, 1986: 62.

Previous records from Egypt. Giza governorate ( Afifi et al., 1984) ; Giza and Cairo governorates ( Zaher, 1986).

Remarks. No additional specimens of this species were found in this study. It was originally described from the holotype female and an unstated number of paratype females collected in the Faculty of Agriculture Farm , Cairo University , Giza governorate. The original description was reasonably detailed, with illustrations of all stages, but only with measurements of idiosoma and legs.