Pseudolaelaps Berlese, 1916 (Pseudolaelapidae)

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Genus Pseudolaelaps Berlese, 1916 (Pseudolaelapidae)

Pseudolaelaps Berlese, 1916a: 30 . Replacement name for Hoplolaelaps Berlese, 1910a: 259 (not Hoplolaelaps Berlese, 1903b: 14). Type species Laelaps (Hoplolaelaps) doderoi Berlese, 1910 , by original designation.

Notes. Different authors have classified Pseudolaelaps in different places within the cohort Gamasina . In their classification of the family Dermanyssidae, Evans & Till (1966) erected a separate subfamily Pseudolaelapinae for this genus, to accommodate a species with marked hypotrichy of the idiosoma and appendages, and a trispinate epistome. Bregetova (1977b) considered the genus as a member of the Laelapidae . Karg (1993) later moved the genus to the Eviphidoidea and elevated it to family rank. In Lindquist et al. (2009), Pseudolaelaps is included provisionally as the sole representative of the pachylaelapid subfamily Pseudolaelapinae , despite the fact that the female displays characteristics not typical of the Pachylaelapidae . We provisionally agree with Karg (1993), in recognising the family Pseudolaelapidae , but further study is needed to determine its correct systematic placement.