Abstract
Several collections of mites from the mountain beaver, Aplodontia rufa (Rodentia: Aplodontidae), represent an undescribed species of the family Laelaptidae. This species is placed provisionally in the genus Laelaps although it does not have the characters of this genus in the restricted sense in which Laelaps is defined today. Particularly the ventral plate of the female differs from that of Laelaps s.s., in having six pairs of spinelike setae instead of four and in its elongate shape.
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