Lasioseius plumatus Karg , 1980

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4112 (1), pp. 1-299 : 181

Lasioseius plumatus Karg, 1980

Lasioseius (Crinidens) plumatus Karg, 1980: 360 , bottom of page, Figure 8 (see note below). Lasioseius (Crinidens) plumatus .— Christian & Karg, 2006: 186.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: Ungarischen Naturwissenschaftlichen Museum in Budapest, Hungary.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Venezuela, in soil.

NOTE: Karg (1980: 360) presented two species descriptions headed Lasioseius (Crinidens) plumatus n. sp. The first description, with a holotype from Ecuador, refers to Karg's Figure 7 , which is labelled Lasioseius (Crinidens) tuberculatus . The second description headed Lasioseius (Crinidens) plumatus n. sp., with a holotype from Venezuela, refers to Karg's Figure 8 . Karg's key on page 357 cites Figure 7 as Lasioseius (Crinidens) tuberculatus and Figure 8 as Lasioseius (Crinidens) plumatus . We conclude that there was an inadvertent printer's error in the first line of page 360, which should read Lasioseius (Crinidens) tuberculatus n. sp. This is consistent with the treatment of these species in Christian & Karg (2006).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. General morphology of members of the ascid complex (all females, except 8, male): 1. Dorsal idiosoma of a Lasioseius (Blattisociidae) species; 2. Ventral idiosoma of a Lasioseius species; 3. Dorsal gnathosoma of a Lasioseius species; 4. Ventral gnathosoma of a Lasioseius species (a: palp trochanter; b: corniculus; c: internal malae; d: deutosternum; h 1, h 2, h 3: hypostomal setae; pc: palpcoxal seta); 5 – 8. Antiaxial view of chelicera. 5. Female Lasioseius species (a: dorsal seta; b: dorsal lyrifissure; c: pilus dentilis; d: antiaxial lyrifissure); 6. Female Proctolaelaps species, Melicharidae (a: lobe; b: ventral mucro; c: hyaline rim); 7. Female Mucroseius species, Melicharidae (a: distal mucro); 8. Male, Lasioseius species (a: spermatodactyl). Not to scale.