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Parasitic mites associated with spiders are spreading world-wide through the trade in tarantulas and other pet species.  Ljunghia pulleinei  Womersley, a mesostigmatic laelapid mite originally found in association with the mygalomorph spider  Selenocosmia stirlingi  Hogg (Theraphosidae) in Australia, is redescribed and illustrated on the basis of specimens from the African theraphosid spider  Pterinochilus chordatus  (Gerstäcker) kept in captivity in the British Isles (Wales). The mite is known from older original descriptions of Womersley in 1956; the subsequent redescription of Domrow in 1975 seems to be questionable in conspecificity of treated specimens with the type material. Some inconsistencies in both descriptions are recognised here as intraspecific variability of the studied specimens. The genus  Arachnyssus  Ma, with species  A. guangxiensis  (type) and  A. huwenae , is not considered to be a valid genus, and is included in synonymy with  Ljunghia  Oudemans. A new key to world species of the genus  Ljunghia  is provided.

Mites Parasitic on Australasian and African Spiders Found in the Pet Trade; a Redescription of Ljunghia pulleinei Womersley