Cosmolaelaps lignicolus (G. & R. Canestrini, 1882a:74)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Laelaps lignicola G. & R. Canestrini, 1882 (basionym); Hypoaspis lignicola (G. & R. Canestrini, 1882:74); Gymnolaelaps lignicola (G. & R. Canestrini, 1882:74)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Distribution
Italy
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Canestrini, G. and Canestrini, R. (1882a). I Gamasi Italiani. Memoria. Atti della Società Veneto-Trentina di Scienze Naturali Residente in Padova, 8, 3–82, pls. I-VII.
Other references:
Berlese, A. (1892). Acari, Myriapoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italia reperta, 70, 31 unnumbered text pages, 14 pls.
Bernini, E., Castagnoli, M. and Nannelli, R. (1995). Arachnida Acari. In: Minelli, A., Ruffo, S. & La Posta, S. (Eds.), Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana, 24, pp. 1-131. [Calderini, Bologna]
Canestrini, G. (1885). Prospetto dell'Acarofauna Italiana, Volume 1, Famiglie: Oribatini, Gamasini, Hoplopini, Trombidini, Rhyncholophini. Proserpini, Padova, 163 pp., pls. I - IX.
Canestrini, G. and Canestrini, R. (1882b). I Gamasi Italiani. Monografia. Proserpini, Padova, 80 pp., pls. I-VII.
Moreira, F.G. (2014). Taxonomic Studies of Laelapid Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) and their use in Combination with Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae, Heterorhabditidae) to control Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), PhD thesis, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Câmpus de Jaboticabal, Jaboticabal, 390 pp. [pp. 102-491]
Oudemans, A. C. (1902). New list of Dutch Acari. Second part. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 45, 1-52, pls. 1-6.
Oudemans, A. C. (1903). Notes on Acari. Fifth series. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 45, 123-150.
Plumari, Massimo and Joharchi, Omid. (2017). Rediscovery and redescription of Laelaps lignicola G. & R. Canestrini, a remarkable myrmecophilous mite of the genus Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Italy. Zootaxa 4232(1): 21-40. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.2
Tipton, V. J. (1960). The genus Laelaps with a review of the Laelaptinae and a new subfamily Alphalaelaptinae (Acarina: Laelaptidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, Technical Bulletin, Berkeley, 16 (6), 233-356.
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