Cosmolaelaps hrdyi (Samšiňák), Samsinak

Keum, Eunsun, Jung, Chuleui & Joharchi, Omid, 2017, New species and new records of the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Republic of Korea, Zootaxa 4353 (3), pp. 485-505 : 487

Cosmolaelaps hrdyi (Samšiňák)

Hypoaspis (Cosmolaelaps) hrdyi Samšiňák, 1961: 205 .

Hypoaspis (Cosmolaelaps) hrdyi .— Karg, 1985:237; 1988:516; Bai & Ma, 2012: 558.

Hypoaspis hrydi (sic).— Gu, 1990:441; Li, Zheng & Yang, 1996: 55.

Hypoaspis hrdyi .— Ma, 1996:48; Ren & Guo, 2008: 329.

Hypoaspis (Cosmolaelaps) shenyangensis Bei, Shi & Yin, 2003: 648 (junior synonymy by Ma, 2006: 23; Bai & Ma, 2012: 558).

Cosmolaelaps hrdyi .— Ma, 2005: 535; Moreira et al., 2014: 319.

Cosmolaelaps ) shenyangensis .— Ren & Guo, 2008: 328.

Specimens examined. 10 females and seven males, Nakdong River , Jeongsang-dong , Andong , Goepyeong-ri, Gumi, Gyeongbuk province, Republic of Korea, 36°33' N, 128°40' E, alt. 92 m, 36°10' N, 128°22' E, alt. 31 m 23 May 2009, E. Keum coll., from soil riparian grassland (deposited in PMANU) .

Notes. Cosmolaelaps hrdyi was described from China ( Samšiňák, 1961) where it was found from a termite mound. Ma (2006) considered that Cosmolaelaps shenyangensis is a junior synonym of Cosmolaelaps hrdyi . C. shenyangensis was also described from China ( Bei et. al., 2003). It has been found from soil and is now recorded in Republic of Korea for the first time, from the same host. Our specimens agree well with the both description given by Samšiňák (1961) and Bei et. al. (2003). The species is easily recognised by thin setae of the dorsal shield, j1, z1 and Z5 simple and without knob at their bases, and st1 and st2 long, reaching well past base of next posterior setae.