Lasioseius dentatus (Fox , 1946)

Lasioseius dentatus (Fox, 1946)

Borinquolaelaps dentatus Fox, 1946a: 451 .

Lasioseius dentatus .— Lindquist, 1964a: 279; Lindquist & Evans, 1965: 61; Fouly, 1997: 2; Moraza & Lindquist, 2011: 22.

Lasioseius ( Borinquolaelaps) dentatus .— Christian & Karg, 2006: 147.

Lasioseius ( Crinidens) dentatus .— Karg, 1980: 353.

Lasioseius scapulatus Kennett, 1958: 478 (Synonymy by Lindquist, 1964a: 280; 1964b: 3895; Walter & Lindquist, 1989: 2810).

Lasioseius scapulatus .— Chant, 1963: 290; Ishikawa, 1969a: 112; Bregetova, 1977a: 181; Ramírez et al., 1987: 125; Zhang & Fan, 2010: 283.

Lasioseius ( Criniacus) scapulatus .— Karg, 1980: 364.

Lasioseius ( Cuspiacus) scapulatus .— Christian & Karg, 2006: 225.

Lasioseius analis Evans, 1958b: 581 (Synonymy of L. dentatus by Lindquist, 1964a: 280; 1964b: 3895).

Lasioseius analis .— Krantz, 1962: 16; Aswegen & Loots, 1969: 2; Lindquist, 1971: 935; Gu & Guo, 1996: 41; Zhang & Fan, 2010: 283.

Lasioseius ( Crinidens) analis .— Karg, 1980: 353.

Lasioseius ( Borinquolaelaps) analis .— Christian & Karg, 2006: 146.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: of L. dentatus : Department of Medical Zoology, School of Tropical Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico; of L. scapulatus : United States National Museum, Washington DC, USA; of L. analis : British Museum (Natural History), London, England.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: of L. dentatus: Camp O’Reilly , Gurabo, Puerto Rico, on Rattus species or Mus m. musculus ( sic) [Animalia: Muridae ]; of L. scapulatus: Morgan Hill , California, USA, on eggs of Paria sp. [Animalia: Chrysomelidae ] on strawberry [Plantae: Rosaceae ]; of L. analis: Bucasa Range , near Kampala, Uganda, in nest of social spiders [Animalia: Araneae ].

NOTES: (a) Evans (1958a: 224), Athias-Henriot (1959: 189) and Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 36) considered Lasioseius floridensis Berlese to be a senior synonym of L. (= Borinquolaelaps ) dentatus Fox. We adopted the interpretation of Britto et al. (2011: 13), considering them to be distinct species; (b) Evans (1958b: 582) considered the possibility that L. dentatus could be a junior synonym of Lasioseius ( Lasioseius) muricatus var. transoceanicus , a nomen nudum according to Evans (1958a: 224); (c) Farrier & Hennessey (1993: 36) considered L. floridensis to be a senior synonym of L. scapulatus , but Britto et al. (2011: 14) considered them to be distinct species; that latter interpretation is accepted in this publication; (d) Specimens reported as L. scapulatus by Athias-Henriot (1959: 175) were described by Karg (1980: 356) as Lasioseius scapulatosimilis .