Cheiroseius Berlese

Sejus Koch, 1843: 92 (not Koch, 1836: 17) (Synonymy by Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 37).

Type species: Sejus viduus Koch, 1839 (see Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 37 for details).

Lasioseius (Cheiroseius) Berlese, 1916a: 40 .

Type species: Seius unguiculatus Berlese, by original designation.

Lasioseius (Cheiroseius) .— Vitzthum, 1941: 765; Garman, 1948: 6; Baker & Wharton, 1952: 88.

Episeius Hull, 1918: 63 (Synonymy by Evans & Hyatt, 1960: 49; Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 37; Karg, 1981: 54; Halliday et al., 1998: 20).

Type species: Paraseius serratus Halbert, 1915, by original designation.

Episeiella Willmann, 1938: 164 (Synonymy by Evans & Hyatt, 1960: 49; Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 37; Karg, 1981: 54; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 31; Halliday et al., 1998: 20).

Type species: Episeiella heteropoda Willmann, 1938, by original designation.

Episeiella .— Vitzthum, 1941: 765.

Seius .— Vitzthum, 1941: 765; Garman, 1948: 7.

Sejus .— Evans & Hyatt, 1960: 49; Krantz, 1962: 5; Karg, 1965: 203; 1971b: 252; 1973: 329; 1981: 54; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 31; Halliday et al., 1998: 20.

Cheiroseius .— Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 37; Bregetova, 1977a: 187; Evans & Till, 1979: 197; Karg, 1981: 51; 1993: 255; Zaher, 1986: 47; Tseng, 1989: 4; Evans & Baker, 1991: 125; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 31; Halliday et al., 1998: 20; Ramadan, 1998: 136; Lindquist, 2003: 157; Kalúz & Fenďa, 2005: 40; Lekveishvili & Klompen, 2006: 2318; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 144; Gwiazdowicz et al., 2008a: 30; Lindquist & Moraza, 2010: 4.

Cheiroseius (Posttrematus) Karg, 1981: 55 (Synonymy by Halliday et al., 1998: 20).

Type species: Hypoaspis necorniger Oudemans, 1903, by original designation.

Cheiroseius (Posttrematus) .— Karg, 1993: 256; Halliday et al., 1998: 20; Lindquist, 2003: 159; Kalúz & Fenďa, 2005: 42.

NOTES: (a) Vitzthum (1941: 765), Baker & Wharton (1952: 89), Evans (1957a: 226) and Schweizer (1961: 116) considered Episeius to be a junior synonym of Platyseius Berlese. We adopted the interpretation of Evans & Hyatt (1960: 49), Lindquist & Evans (1965: 37), Karg (1981: 54) and Halliday et al. (1998: 20), considering it to be a junior synonym of Cheiroseius . (b) According to Halliday et al. (1998: 20), Episeius is the senior name available for Cheiroseius (Posttrematus) .