Catalogue of the free-living and arthropod-associated Laelapidae Canestrini (Acari: Mesostigmata), with revised generic concepts and a key to genera Author Moraes, Gilberto José De 0000-0002-5587-1781 moraesg@usp.br Author Moreira, Grazielle Furtado 0000-0002-1436-2163 grabiologia@yahoo.com.br Author Freire, Renata Angélica Prado 0000-0002-1436-2163 grabiologia@yahoo.com.br Author Beaulieu, Frédéric 0000-0001-8383-9992 frederic.beaulieu@canada.ca Author Klompen, Hans 0000-0002-6717-115X klompen.1@osu.edu Author Halliday, Bruce 0000-0002-5587-1781 moraesg@usp.br text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-13 5184 1 1 590 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5184.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5184.1.1 1175-5326 7130366 FAE1ED16-D6CA-4907-9AF6-A8BADDE2A577

TABLE 3. Currently valid genera of free-living and arthropod-associated Laelapidae, the type species, number of valid species, main habitats or hosts and distribution, based on type habitats/hosts and type localities of constituent species, including junior synonyms. *Genera also containing one subspecies each; ** For Asia, we used the regions defined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia except for Western Asia, which we called Middle East. “Widespread” indicates that it was found in most main world regions, but not necessarily all.

Genus	Type species	Species	Main habitats / hosts	Distribution**
Acantholaelaps	A. strategus Joharchi et al.,	1	Dynastine scarabs	Caribbean
	2019
Alloparasitus	Laelaps (Hypoaspis)	7	Moss, soil-litter, under	Caribbean, Central and
	oblongus Halbert, 1915		rotting tree bark	South America, Europe
Androlaelaps	Laelaps (Iphis)	217*	Small mammals or their	Widespread
	hermaphrodita Berlese, 1887		nests, birds, litter
Angosomaspis	A. multisetosus Costa, 1971	1	Dynastine scarabs	Africa
Apolaelaps	A. mexicanus Silvestri, 1911	1	Ant nests	North America
Berlesia	B. rapax Canestrini, 1884	4	Gryllacridid crickets	Oceania, Southeast Asia
Bisternalis	B. rettenmeyeri Hunter, 1963	6	Meliponine bee nests and	North, Central and South
			wasp nests	America
Blaberolaelaps	B. matthiesensis Costa, 1980	2	Blaberid cockroaches	South America
Chapalaelaps	Coleolaelaps granulatus	3	Scarabs, litter	South America
	Hyatt, 1964
Chapalania	C. cifuentesi Hoffmann &	2	Passalids, dynastine	North and South
	López-Campos, 1995		scarabs	America
Coleolaelaps	Laelaps (Iphis) agrestis	33	Melolonthine scarabs	Widespread
	Berlese, 1887
Conolaelaps	Laelaps coniferus Canestrini,	1	Unidentified insect (type	Oceania
	1884		specimen; presently also
			known from millipedes)
Cosmolaelaps	Laelaps claviger Berlese,	135	soil-litter, ant nests	Widespread
	1882
Cyclothorax	C. carcinicola von	3	Hermit crabs	Oceania, Southeast Asia
	Frauenfeld, 1868
Dicrocheles	Myrmonyssus phalaenodectes	5	Noctuid moths	Africa, East Asia,
	Treat, 1954			Oceania
Dinogamasus	D. crassipes Kramer, 1898	44	Xylocopine bees	Africa; Middle East;
				East, South and
				Southeast Asia
Dynastaspis	D. walhallae Costa, 1971	2	Dynastine scarabs	Caribbean, North
				America
Dynatochela	D. primus Keegan, 1950	1	Melolonthine scarabs	North America
Dyscinetonyssus	D. hystricosus Moss & Funk,	1	Dynastine scarabs	North America
	1965
Euandrolaelaps	Laelaps (Androlaelaps)	6	Small mammals and their	Europe, North and East
	sardous Berlese, 1911		nests, ant nests, soil	Asia
Eumellitiphis	E. mellitus Turk, 1948	3	Meliponine bee and their	Caribbean, Southeast
			nests	Asia