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Haemogamasus transbaicalicus Buyakova & Goncharova 1964

Description

Haemogamasus transbaicalicus Buyakova & Goncharova, 1964

Haemogamasus transcaicalicus Buyakova & Goncharova 1964: 768, figs 1, 2.

Haemogamasus transbaicalicus.— Allred, 1969: 111; Zemskaya, 1973: 119; Goncharova et al., 1991: 46.

Type locality. Russia, Eastern Siberia, Chita City.

Syntypes. ZIN and the Department of General Biology of the Chita Medical Institute.

Type host. No. The species was described as a free-living mite found in cellars.

Host range. Haemogamasus transbaicalicus is common in vegetable stores and may occasionally be recorded on house mouse. Some species of wild rodents are also hosts of this mite but its abundance on small mammals is very low (Goncharova et al., 1991).

Distribution. Western and Eastern Siberia, in southern parts of these regions (Goncharova et al., 1991).

Notes

Published as part of Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2017, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 4273 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/818303

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References

  • Buyakova, T. G. & Goncharova, A. A. (1964) New species of gamasid mites (Parasitiformes, Gamasoidea). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 43, 268 - 271. [in Russian]
  • Allred, D. M. (1969) Haemogamasid mites of Eastern Asia and Western Pacific with a key to species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 6, 103 - 108.
  • Zemskaya, A. A. (1973) Parasitic Gamasid Mites and Their Medical Importance. Meditsina Publishing House, Moscow, 168 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]