Cosmolaelaps zachvatkinae ( Shereef & Afifi, 1980 ) Shereef & Afifi, 1980

Nemati, Alireza & Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J., 2016, Description of a new species of Cosmolaelaps Berlese and the male of C. brevipedestra (Karg) from Iran, with notes on some other species of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae), Zootaxa 4066 (5), pp. 535-551 : 548

Cosmolaelaps zachvatkinae ( Shereef & Afifi, 1980) new combination

Hypoaspis zachvatkinae Shereef & Afifi, 1980: 125 .

Notes. This species was described from Giza, Egypt in organic manure ( Shereef & Afifi, 1980). The general appearance of this species is similar to the members of the genus Laelaspis , with expanded genital shield posterior to coxae IV which bears Λ-shaped lines on its surface, but has distinct and sclerotised presternal plates and scimitar-shaped dorsal shield setae similar to Cosmolaelaps . Genu IV in this species has two ventral setae (av and pv) (2 2/1 3/1 1). The members of Cosmolaelaps genus have genu IV with one (2 2/1 3/0 1) or two (2 2/1 3/0 2) postero-lateral setae ( Evans & Till, 1966), but in both cases without pv seta. Genu IV in Laelaspis also has one ventral seta (av) ( Hunter, 1964; Joharchi et al., 2012; and new observations). It is necessary to check the type materials of H. zachvatkinae to determine its leg chaetotaxy and assign it to a genus, but until then we considered it as a species of Cosmolaelaps member.