Androlaelaps Berlese 1903
Description
Genus Androlaelaps Berlese, 1903
Haemolaelaps Berlese, 1910 (partim) Atricholaelaps Ewing, 1929 (partim) Eubrachylaelaps Ewing, 1929
Ischnolaelaps Fonseca, 1936 (partim) Zygolaelaps Tipton, 1957
Gromphadorholaelaps Till, 1969 Gnatholaelaps Till, 1972
Type species. Androlaelaps hermaphrodita Berlese, 1887.
Remarks. Mites of this cosmopolitan genus are ecological opportunists associated with a wide range of species hosts (insects, reptiles, birds, rodents) as well as with their nests. Not all Androlaelaps mites are considered as closely associated with small mammals. For example, A. karawajewi Berlese, 1903 recorded from Western Siberia is a myrmecophilous mite inhabiting ant nests (Davydova, 1977). It was excluded from the check-list below.
The genus Androlaelaps has sometimes been placed into the stem subfamily Hypoaspidinae Vitzthum, 1941 (Tipton, 1960; Casanueva, 1993). Here we follow Lindquist et al. (2009) and classify it as a member of the nominate subfamily.
The long established synonymy between the genera Androlaelaps and Haemolaelaps supported by many authors (Till, 1963; Evans & Till, 1966; Senotrusova, 1987; Goncharova et al. 1991) has been rejected recently by Shaw (2014) who also rediagnosed Haemolaelaps. Bregetova (1977b) stated there are 10 species of Androlaelaps in the ex-USSR fauna; seven have been recorded from Asiatic Russia, as follows.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Laelapidae
- Genus
- Androlaelaps
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Mesostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Berlese
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Androlaelaps Berlese, 1903 sec. Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016
References
- Davydova, M. S. (1977) A new and a little-known species of free-living gamasid mites (Parasitiformes, Gamasoidea). In: Cherepanov, A. I. (Ed.), Taxa of the Siberian Fauna, Nauka, Novosibirsk, pp. 23 - 29. [in Russian]
- Tipton, V. J. (1960) The genus Laelaps. With a review of the Laelapinae and a new subfamily Alphalaelaptinae (Acarina: Laelapidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 16, 233 - 356.
- Casanueva, M. E. (1993) Phylogenetic studies of the free-living and arthropod associated Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Gayana Zoologia, 57, 21 - 46.
- Lindquist, E. E., Krantz, G. W. & Walter, D. E. (2009) Order Mesostigmata. In: Krantz, G. W. & Walter, D. E. (Eds.), A Manual of Acarology. 3 rd Edition. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX, pp. 124 - 232.
- Till, W. M. (1963) Ethiopian mites of the genus Laelaps Berlese s. lat. (Acari: Mesostigmata). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 10, 101 - 104.
- Evans, G. O. & Till, W. M. (1966) Studies on the British Dermanyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Part II. Classification. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology, 14, 107 - 370.
- Senotrusova, V. G. (1987) Gamasid mites - parasites of wild animals in Kazakhstan. Nauka, Alma-Ata, 224 pp. [in Russian]
- Goncharova, A. A., Bondarchuk, A. S. & Vershinina, O. N. (1991) Gamasid mites - ectoparasites of mammals in Transbaikalia. Chita State Medical University, Chita, 121 pp. [in Russian]
- Shaw, M. D. (2014) Haemolaelaps Berlese removed from synonomy with Androlaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae). Zootaxa, 3841 (2), 285 - 292. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3841.2.7
- Bregetova (1977 b) Family Laelaptidae Berlese, 1892. In: Ghilyarov, M. S. & Bregetova, N. G. (Eds.), Key to the Soil Inhabiting Mites. Mesostigmata, Nauka, Leningrad, pp. 483 - 554. [in Russian]