Gamasholaspis akimotoi ( Ishikawa, 1966 )

Hajizadeh, Jalil, 2022, Review of the Iranian Parholaspidid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) with a key to the species, Zootaxa 5178 (3), pp. 229-240 : 230

Gamasholaspis akimotoi ( Ishikawa, 1966)

Parholaspulus akimotoi Ishikawa, 1966: 106 .

Gamasholaspis akimotoi .— Ehara, 1980: 79.

Gamasholaspis incises Petrova & Tascaeva, 1968: 1186 . Synonymy by Marchenko (2002).

Gamasholaspis incises .— Petrova, 1977: 339; Karg, 2006: 146; Ahangaran et al., 2012: 6.

Gamasholaspis akimotoi .— Quintero-Gutiérrez & Halliday, 2021: 414 .

Material examined: One female, Tea Research Institute-Lahijan, 37°12’17.11”N, 50°01’23.19”E, 9 m, collected from soil, October 2018; five females, Rasht, Bazar Jomeh, 37°24’21”N, 49°7’320”E, 3 m, soil, August 2018; 4 males, Rasht, Keshel Varzal Village, 37°10’59”N 49°38’42”E, 34 m, bell pepper, Capsicum annuum L. ( Solanaceae ) leaves, February 2019; 4 females, Rasht, Pasikhan Village, 37°17’28”N 49°31’46”E, - 13 m, litter, April 2019.

Habitat and distribution in Iran: Mazandaran Province, soil and litter; Guilan Province, soil and litter ( Kazemi et al., 2014; Saberi et al., 2016; Nemati et al., 2018; Hajizadeh et al., 2020; Ghasemi & Hajizadeh, 2021).

World Distribution: Japan, Korea, Iran. Holotype for P. akimotoi : Japan, Ehime Prefecture, Omogo Valley, litter in cedar forest. For G. incises : Southern China, Linjiang, pine forest litter ( Quintero-Gutiérrez & Halliday, 2021).