Mesolaelaps
{{Short description|Genus of mites}}
{{Taxobox
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Arachnida
| subclassis = Acari
| ordo = Mesostigmata
| familia = Laelapidae
| genus = Mesolaelaps
| genus_authority = Hirst, 1926
}}
Mesolaelaps is a genus of mites in the family Laelapidae.{{cite web |editor=David Evans Walter |url=http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Laelapidae.txt |title=Laelapidae Species Listing |work=Biology Catalog |publisher=Texas A&M University |accessdate=August 31, 2010}} The small macropod species Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, the musky rat kangaroo, is recorded as a to host species of this mite.{{cite book |last1=Claridge |first1=A.W. |last2=Seebeck |first2=J.H. |last3=Rose |first3=R. |title=Bettongs, potoroos, and the musky rat-kangaroo |date=2007 |publisher=CSIRO Pub |location=Collingwood, Victoria |isbn=9780643093416 |page = 81 }}
Species
- Mesolaelaps anomalus (Hirst, 1926)
- Mesolaelaps antipodiana (Hirst, 1926)
- Mesolaelaps australiensis (Hirst, 1926)
- Mesolaelaps bandicoota (Womersley, 1956)
- Mesolaelaps lagotisinus (Hirst, 1931)
- Mesolaelaps sminthopsis (Womersley, 1954)