Subgenus Geholaspis Berlese, 1918 • Geholaspis (Geholapsis) aeneus Krauss, 1970 • Original name: Geholaspis (Geholapsis) aeneus Krauss, 1970. • In: Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde, 14: 38. • Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Holostaspis longispinosus Kramer (Halbert, 1915 in part). Irish Records: Specimen from Halbert collection (Hyatt & Emberson, 1988); soil under Norway spruce (Heneghan, 1994; Heneghan & Bolger, 1996a); rough grassland (Bolger, in press). Counties: Kildare, Kilkenny, Mayo. • Geholaspis (Geholaspis) longispinosus (Kramer, 1876) • Original name: Gamasus longispinosus Kramer, 1876. • In: Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 42: 100. • Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Holostaspis longispinosus Kramer (Halbert, 1915 in part), Macrocheles longispinosus Kramer (Hull, 1918). Irish Records: moss and under bark of tree (Halbert, 1915); pasture (Valarasan, 1971); heather, pine shelter bed and pasture on bog (Longworth, 1973); gorse bank at seashore (Purvis, 1982); flood debris, at a weir, in rock crack, moss on bricks and in stream, and rotten beech stump, in turf (Hyatt & Emberson, 1988; Bolger, 1990), in heather and rough grassland (Bolger, in press); fungal sporocarp (O’Connell, 1994; unpublished data); soil under Norway spruce (Heneghan, 1994; unpublished data); soil in oak, ash Sitka spruce and mixed broadleaf woodlands (unpublished data); soil under Scots pine, moss on oak and Sitka spruce, canopy of oak and Sitka spruce (Arroyo et al., 2010, 2012, 2013a). Counties: Clare, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Mayo, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow.

Published as part of Bolger, Thomas, Arroyo, Julio & Piotrowska, Katarzyna, 2018, A catalogue of the species of Mesostigmata (Arachnida, Acari, Parasitiformes) recorded from Ireland including information on their geographical distribution and habitats, pp. 1-220 in Zootaxa 4519 (1) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4519.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2609574