Proctolaelaps bickleyi (Bram, 1956)

Garmania bickleyi Bram, 1956: 292 .

Proctolaelaps bickleyi .— Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 60; Lindquist & Hunter, 1965: 16; Chant, 1963: 269; McGraw & Farrier, 1969: 72; Bregetova, 1977a: 217; Treat, 1975: 130; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 42; Ostovan & Kamali, 1994: 11; 1997: 30; Halliday et al., 1998: 31; Kamali et al., 2001: 8; Faraji et al., 2007: 111.

Proctolaelaps (Proctolaelaps) bickleyi .—Karg, 1985: 192; 1988a: 448.

Garmania (Garmania) striata Westerboer, 1963: 356 (Synonymy by Lindquist & Hunter, 1965: 16; Karg, 1985: 192; 1988a: 448; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 42; Halliday et al., 1998: 31).

Garmania striata .— Westerboer, 1963: 339.

Proctolaelaps striatus .— Karg, 1971b: 241; 1993: 237.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of P. bickleyi: United States National Museum, Washington DC, USA; accession number 2223; of G. (G.) striata: not stated.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of P. bickleyi: Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, in culture of Sitotroga cerealella [Animalia: Gelechiidae]; of G. (G.) striata: Erlangen, Germany, in rotten apple.

NOTES: (a) specimens from Algeria reported by Athias-Henriot (1959: 171) as P. (P.) bickleyi were re-identified as Proctolaelaps regalis De Leon by Halliday et al. (1998: 32); (b) Lindquist & Hunter (1965: 18) suspected P. bickleyi to be a junior synonym of Garmania lewisi Garman & McGregor; (c) Chant (1963: 269); Karg (1985: 192, 1988a: 448) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 42) considered P. lewisi and P. garmanis to be conspecific with P. bickleyi . We adopted the interpretation of Halliday et al. (1998: 32), considering the first two species to be conspecific but different from P. bickleyi .