Cosmolaelaps indicus Bhattacharyya, 1966

Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna & Halliday, Bruce, 2023, Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 5249 (4), pp. 401-424 : 404

Cosmolaelaps indicus Bhattacharyya, 1966

Cosmolaelaps indicus Bhattacharyya, 1966: 154 .

Hypoaspis calcuttaensis Bhattacharyya, 1971a: 501 (unnecessary replacement name).

Hypoaspis calcuttaensis .— Prasad, 1974: 151; Pramanik & Raychaudhury, 1981: 16; Walia & Mathur, 1994: 71; Walia & Mathur, 1995: 255; Gupta, 2003: 9; Khanjani & Ueckermann, 2005: 119.

Cosmolaelaps indicus .— Das, 2003: 290; Parveen & Gupta, 2020a: 3; Parveen & Gupta, 2020b: 18; Ahmed et al., 2020: 753; Moraes et al., 2022: 206.

Collection records in India: Calcutta University, soil litter under decomposed water hyacinth ( Eichhornia sp. ) ( Bhattacharyya, 1966); West Bengal, in soil (Pramanik & Raychaudhury, 1981); Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, in agricultural soil ( Walia & Mathur, 1994); Hisar, in laboratory culture ( Walia & Mathur, 1995); West Bengal, in mushroom culture ( Parveen & Gupta, 2020a, 2020b); Assam, soil in tea plantation ( Ahmed et al., 2020).

Notes: Bhattacharyya (1971a) proposed the name Hypoaspis calcuttaensis as replacement for Cosmolaelaps indicus Bhattacharyya, 1966 , on the grounds that it was a homonym of Laelaps (Hypoaspis) indicus Vitzthum, 1921 . However, Laelaps indicus Vitzthum and Cosmolaelaps indicus Bhattacharyya are no longer considered as congeneric, so the junior homonym should not be rejected (ICZN Article 59.2).