Genus Cosmolaelaps Berlese, 1903

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• Cosmolaelaps Berlese, A. 1903. Diagnosi di alcuni nuove specie di Acari italiani, mirmecofili e liberi. Zoologischer Anzeiger 27: 12-28.

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Cosmolaelaps have been reported from Australia by Domrow (1955), Hamilton-Smith (1966, 1967), Beaulieu & Walter (2007), Manwaring et al. (2015, 2018), and Walter & Stirling (2018). Beaulieu et al. (2010) and Proctor et al. (2011) reported several unidentified species from Queensland.

General References

Beaulieu, F. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Predation in suspended and forest floor soils: observations on Australian mesostigmatic mites. Acarologia 47: 43–54

Beaulieu., F., Walter, D.E., Proctor, H.C. & Kitching, R.L. 2010. The canopy starts at 0.5 m: predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) differ between rainforest floor soil and suspended soil at any height. Biotropica 42: 704–709 + supplementary pages 1–13

Domrow, R. 1955. Acarine parasites of two species of Rattus from Brisbane, Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 79: 156-158

Hamilton-Smith, E. 1966. Free living mites (Acarina) in Australian caves. National Speleological Society Bulletin 28: 100-103

Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. The Arthropoda of Australian caves. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 6: 103-118

Manwaring, M., Wallace, H.M. & Weaver, H.J. 2018. Effects of a mulch layer on the assemblage and abundance of mesostigmatan mites and other arthropods in the soil of a sugarcane agro‑ecosystem in Australia. Experimental and Applied Acarology 74: 291-300.

Manwaring, M., Walter, D. & Stirling, G.R. 2015. Microarthropoda as predators of nematode pests in sugarcane soils: Literature review and preliminary studies. Proceedings of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 37: 212-217.

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

Walter, D.E. & Stirling, G.R. 2018. Microarthropods in Australian sugarcane soils: A survey with emphasis on the Mesostigmata as potential regulators of nematode populations. Acarologia 58: 673-682.

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