Geholaspis Berlese, 1918

Bolger, Thomas, Arroyo, Julio & Piotrowska, Katarzyna, 2018, A catalogue of the species of Mesostigmata (Arachnida, Acari, Parasitiformes) recorded from Ireland including information on their geographical distribution and habitats, Zootaxa 4519 (1), pp. 1-220 : 123-124

Subgenus Geholaspis Berlese, 1918

• Geholaspis (Geholapsis) aeneus Krauss, 1970 • Original name: Geholaspis (Geholapsis) aeneus Krauss, 1970 . • In: Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde, 14: 38. • Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Holostaspis longispinosus Kramer ( Halbert, 1915 in part).

Irish Records: Specimen from Halbert collection ( Hyatt & Emberson, 1988); soil under Norway spruce

( Heneghan, 1994; Heneghan & Bolger, 1996a); rough grassland (Bolger, in press).

Counties: Kildare, Kilkenny, Mayo.

• Geholaspis (Geholaspis) longispinosus (Kramer, 1876)

• Original name: Gamasus longispinosus Kramer, 1876 .

• In: Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 42: 100.

• Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Holostaspis longispinosus Kramer ( Halbert, 1915 in part),

Macrocheles longispinosus Kramer ( Hull, 1918) .

Irish Records: moss and under bark of tree ( Halbert, 1915); pasture ( Valarasan, 1971); heather, pine shelter bed and pasture on bog ( Longworth, 1973); gorse bank at seashore ( Purvis, 1982); flood debris, at a weir, in rock crack, moss on bricks and in stream, and rotten beech stump, in turf ( Hyatt & Emberson, 1988; Bolger, 1990), in heather and rough grassland (Bolger, in press); fungal sporocarp ( O’Connell, 1994; unpublished data); soil under Norway spruce ( Heneghan, 1994; unpublished data); soil in oak, ash Sitka spruce

and mixed broadleaf woodlands (unpublished data); soil under Scots pine, moss on oak and Sitka spruce, canopy of oak and Sitka spruce ( Arroyo et al., 2010, 2012, 2013a).

Counties: Clare, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Mayo, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow.