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Gamasolaelaps

Family: Veigaiidae Oudemans

Gamasolaelaps Berlese (=Gorirossia Farrier)

Diagnostic characters:

• Scale above 4-tined palp apotele

• Separate or deeply incised dorsal shields

• Anal shield free from ventral shield.

Similar taxa.  Parasitidae are superficially similar, but have ventrianal shields and lack characters such as the scale-like process above the palp apotele and moustache-like internal malae.

Key to Genera of Veigaiidae

1.  Tarsi II-IV with 1-2 broad ambulacral pads ........ 2

  -  Tarsi II-IV with 2 narrow, and bearing acuminate ambulacra ................................................... Cyrthydrolaelaps Berlese

2.  Ambulacral pad entire ........... Gamasolaelaps Berlese

  -  Ambulacra divided into 2 lobes ...... Veigaia Oudemans

References

Evans GO.  1959.  The genera Cyrthydrolaelaps Berlese and Gamasolaelaps Berlese (Acarina: Mesostigmata).  Acarologia 1:201-215.

Farrier MH.  1957.  A revision of the Veigaiidae (Acarina).  North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 124: 1-103.

Gilyarov MS & Bregatova NG (eds)  1977.  Handbook for the Identification of Soil-inhabiting Mites, Mesostigmata.  Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences: Petrograd [In Russian]

Halliday RB. 1990. The occurrence of Veigaia uncata Farrier (Acarina : Mesostigmata : Veigaiidae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 115-116.

Hurlbutt HW.  1983.  The systematics and geographic distribution of east African Veigaiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata).  Acarologia 24(2): 129-143.

Hurlbutt HW.  1984.  A study of North American Veigaia (Acarina: Mesostigmata) with comparisons of habitats of unisexual and bisexual forms.  Acarologia 25: 207-222.

Ishikawa K.  1978.  The Japanese mites of the family Veigaiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata). 1. Description of two new species.  Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 51(2): 100-106.

Till, WM:  1988.  Additions to the British and Irish mites of the genus Veigaia (Acari: Veigaiidae) with a key to the species.  Acarologia 29(1): 3-12

Tseng, Yi Hsiung.  1994.  A taxonomic study of free living Gamasinae mite family Veigaiidae Oudemans (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Taiwan.  Chinese Journal of Entomology 14(4): 501-528

Womersley, H. 1956. On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 42: 505-599.