Blattisocius mali (Oudemans, 1929)

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4112 (1), pp. 1-299 : 135

Blattisocius mali (Oudemans, 1929)

Typhlodromus mali Oudemans, 1929b: 30 .

Garmania (Paragarmania) mali .— Nesbitt, 1951: 49.

Melichares (Blattisocius) mali .— Evans, 1958a: 212; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 163; Hughes, 1961: 240; Tseng, 1982: 5.

Blattisocius mali .— Lindquist, 1964a: 205; Hughes, 1976: 331; Haines, 1979: 26; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 30; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 65; Gwiazdowicz et al., 2008b: 36; Zhang & Fan, 2010: 282; Çakmak et al., 2011: 583; Britto et al., 2012: 50 .

Paragarmania mali .— Karg, 1965: 279; 1971b: 192; 1993: 172; Bregetova, 1977a: 224; Lehtinen & Aspi, 1995: 537.

Lasioseius (Paragarmania) bakeri Chant, 1958: 386 (Synonymy by Athias-Henriot, 1959: 163; Lindquist, 1964a: 206; Haines, 1979: 26; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 30).

Blattisocius bakeri .— Chant, 1963: 301; Christian & Karg, 2006: 238.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of B. mali : not stated; of L. (P.) bakeri : United States National Museum, Washington DC, USA.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of B. mali: Amsterdam, Wageningen, Arnhem , The Netherlands, on bark of Pyrus malus [Plantae: Rosaceae ]; of L. (P.) bakeri : intercepted at Los Angeles, California, USA, on dried prunes and peaches [Plantae: Rosaceae ] imported from Santiago, Chile.

NOTES: (a) based on the original descriptions of T. mali and of L. (P.) bakeri, Chant (1963: 302) disagreed with Athias-Henriot (1959: 163) about the synonymy of those species. A re-examination of the types by Haines (1979: 27) lead him to decide on the synonymy of these species. (b) Lindquist (1964a: 206; 1964b: 3895); Hughes (1976: 333) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 30) considered B. daci to be a junior synonym of B. mali . We adopted the interpretation of Haines (1979: 28), considering them to be distinct species.