Genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till, 1966

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• Gaeolaelaps Evans, G.O. & Till, W.M. 1966. Studies on the British Dermanyssidae (Acari : Mesostigmata). Part II. Classification. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 14: 109-370.
• Geolaelaps Berlese, A. 1923. Centuria sesta di Acari nuovi. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 15: 237-262 [nomen nudum].
• Gaeolaelaps Trägårdh, I. 1952. Acarina, collected by the Mangarevan expedition to South Eastern Polynesia in 1934 by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Mesostigmata. Arkiv för Zoologi 4: 45-90 [nomen nudum].

Introduction

The nomenclatural history of this name was thoroughly reviewed by Halliday & Lindquist (2007), who concluded that the correct spelling is Gaeolaelaps and its authors are Evans & Till (1966).

Beaulieu (2009) reviewed and re-defined the genus Gaeolaelaps, and included in the genus many species that had previously been placed in other genera, especially Hypoaspis. I have included in Gaeolaelaps only those Australian species that were specifically mentioned by Beaulieu. It is likely that many of the other species that are listed here under Hypoaspis should also be transferred to Gaeolaelaps. Four new species described by Faraji & Halliday (2009) in the subgenus Hypoaspis (Gaeolaelaps) are also now included in Gaeolaelaps. In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Gaeolaelaps have been reported from Australia by Hamilton-Smith (1967), Beaulieu et al. (2010), Proctor et al. (2011), Colloff et al. (2013, as Hypoaspis), Eberhard et al. (2014) Manwaring et al. (2015) and Walter & Stirling (2018).

General References

Beaulieu, F. 2009. Review of the mite genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Acari: Laelapidae), and description of a new species from North America, G. gillespiei n. sp. Zootaxa 2158: 33-49

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

Colloff, M.J., Lindsay, E.A. & Cook, D.C. 2013. Natural pest control in citrus as an ecosystem service: Integrating ecology, economics and management at the farm scale. Biological Control 67: 170-177 + supplementary data.

Eberhard, S.M., Smith, G.B., Gibian, M.M., Smith, H.M. & Gray, M.R. 2014. Invertebrate cave fauna of Jenolan. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 136: 35-67.

Faraji, F. & Halliday, B. 2009. Five new species of mites (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with large Australian cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae). International Journal of Acarology 35: 245-264

Halliday, R.B. & Lindquist, E.E. 2007. Nomenclatural ntes on the names Gaeolaelaps and Geolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae). Zootaxa 1621: 65-67

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

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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