A New Species of Hypoaspisella Bernhard (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) on Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) from Greece

A new species Hypoaspisella kozlowskii sp. nov. (Acari: Laelapidae) is described and illustrated. The description is done based on the morphological characters of females and male specimens, which have been collected from bark of endemic trees Zelkova abelicea (Lam.) in Crete (Greece). Our detailed examination on type materials of Gaeolaelaps hirschmanni (Karg) reveals that the species is more correctly positioned under the genus Hypoaspisella Bernhard. We substantiate the idea of Joharchi et al. to consider Hypoaspisella hermonensis (Costa) as junior synonym of H. antipai (Solomon).