Melichares Hering

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 : 198

Melichares Hering

Melichares Hering, 1838: 620 .

Type species: Melichares agilis Hering, 1836 , by original desingnation.

Melichares .— Oudemans, 1905b: 242; 1929b: 29; 1936: 252; Evans, 1958a: 206 (in part); 1963: 286; Hughes, 1961: 232 (in part); 1976: 322; Chant, 1963: 295; Lindquist, 1964a: 173; Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 51; Athias-Henriot, 1968: 232; Karg, 1971b: 225; 1993: 220; 2005: 63; Bregetova, 1977a: 218; Evans & Till, 1979: 197; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 40; Gupta, 2003: 7; Gwiazdowicz, 2007: 96; Mašán et al., 2013: 423.

Blattisocius Keegan, 1944: 181 (Synonymy with Melichares by Evans, 1958a: 206; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 161).

Garmania Nesbitt, 1951: 43 . (Synonymy of Melichares by Evans, 1958a: 206; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 161; Lindquist, 1964a: 173; Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 40).

Type species: Typhodromus domesticus Oudemans, 1929 , by original designation.

Garmania (Paragarmania) Nesbitt, 1951: 49 (Synonymy with Melichares by Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 40).

Type species: Typhlodromus mali Oudemans , by original designation.

Garmania .— Evans, 1957a: 227; Hirschmann, 1959: 4; Westerboer, 1963: 336.

Melichares (Melichares) .— Evans, 1958a: 207; Hughes, 1961: 232.

NOTES: (a) Lindquist & Evans (1965: 52) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 40) considered Melichares to be a senior synonym of Mucroseius Lindquist and Orolaelaps De Leon , but the latter two genera were considered to be different from the former respectively by Lindquist & Wu (1991: 879) and Halliday et al. (1998: 2); in this publication, Mucroseius and Orolaelaps are considered to be valid genera; (b) Evans (1958a: 206) considered Paragarmania a junior synonym of Melichares ; however in that publication he considered Blattisocius to be a subgenus of Melichares , and included the type species of Paragarmania in that subgenus, making Paragarmania a synonym of Blattisocius . Athias-Henriot (1959: 161) accepted the same reasoning, but Blattisocius was reinstated at the genus level and considered different from Melichares by Lindquist & Evans (1965: 48).