Pediculaster kneeboni Wicht 1970

Pediculaster kneeboni (Wicht, 1970) Pediculaster monoufiensis Sevastianov and Abo Korah, 1985: 38, fig. 3 syn. nov. Sevastianov & Abo-Korah (1985) described Pediculaster monoufiensis Sevastianov and Abo-Korah, 1985 from Egypt. My examination of phoretic female holotype of P. monoufiensis revealed its conspeceficity with P. kneeboni (Wicht, 1970) redescribed by Martin (1978). Therefore I consider P. monoufiensis syn. nov. as a junior synonym of P. kneeboni. Material examined. Phoretic female holotype of P. monoufiensis, slide 1071, EGYPT: vicinity of Shibin-el- Kom, on jimson weed Datura stramonium (Dicotylédones: Solanaceae), 30 September 1979, Coll. S.M. Abo- Korah. Published as part of Khaustov, Alexandr A., 2011, Nomenclature changes in the mite families Neopygmephoridae and Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) with redescription of two little known species, pp. 47-57 in Zootaxa 2809 on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201298