Gymnolaelaps kabitae Bhattacharyya, 1968

Gymnolaelaps kabitae Bhattacharyya, 1968

Gymnolaelaps kabitae Bhattacharyya, 1968: 537 .

Pseudoparasitus (Gymnolaelaps) kabitae .— Karg, 1989: 334.

Pseudoparasitus (Gymnolaelaps) hospes .— Nemati et al., 2000: 381.

Laelaspisella kabitae .— Joharchi & Halliday, 2013: 47; Joharchi et al. 2016: 21.

Gymnolaelaps kabitae .— Nemati & Gwiazdowicz, 2016b: 45 View Cited Treatment ; Joharchi et al. 2020: 477; Moraes et al. 2022: 401.

Specimens examined

One female, Dhannot , District Lodhran, Punjab, Pakistan, 29° 36' N, 71° 45' E, 3 April 2014 GoogleMaps ; 2 males, same data except 27 April 2014 GoogleMaps ; 1 male, same data except 20 April 2014 GoogleMaps ; 1 female, 3 males, Rajhana , Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, Paksitan, 30° 50' N, 72° 33' E, 27 October 2014 GoogleMaps ; 1 male Dera

Ghazi Khan, Basti Budhan, 29° 49' N, 70° 36' E, 18 August 2014, undisturbed soil; 1 male, same data except 28 February 2014 ; 1 male, Layyah, 30° 58' N, 70° 56' E, 27 April 2014, undisturbed soil.

Notes

Joharchi et al. (2016) referred to this species as Laelaspisella kabitae , using a broad concept of Laelaspisella Marais & Loots, 1969 that included six species. In a simultaneous paper, Nemati and Gwiazdowicz (2016b) used a narrow concept of Laelaspisella that includes only the two original species L. epigynialis Marais & Loots 1969 and L. macrodorsalis Marais & Loots, 1969 . It is difficult to include G. kabitae in Laelaspisella without also including Pogonolaelaps Nemati & Gwiazdowicz, 2016b . Nemati et al. (2019) discussed the morphology of L. kabitae in detail, but could not decide on its generic placement. Moraes et al. (2022) also considered it as incertae sedis. We provisionally place G. kabitae in Gymnolaelaps until all these genera are thoroughly revised.