Onchodellus brevis (Berlese, 1920), new combination

Pachylaelaps brevis Berlese, 1920b: 178 . Type locality: Angola, South Africa.

Pachylaelaps brevis .— Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985: 52.

not Pachylaelaps brevis Costa, 1971: 263 (= Onchodellus michaelcostai Mašán & Halliday, new name).

Notes. We have provisionally placed this species in Onchodellus, based only on its phoresy on a scarabaeid beetle. We believe that phoresy does not occur in Pachylaelaps .