Hirstionyssus transiliensis Bregetova 1956

Hirstionyssus transiliensis Bregetova, 1956

Hirstionyssus transiliensis Bregetova 1956: 179, 191, figs 400, 414, 415, 467–469

Hirstionyssus transiliensis — Allred 1969: 242; Koroleva 1977: 132, figs 2(1), 5(6); Senotrusova 1987: 79, fig. 38;

Echinonyssus transiliensis — Tenorio 1984: 279.

Hirstionyssus transiliensis — Goncharova et al. 1991: 74.

Type locality: Kazakhstan, Zailiyskiy Alatau Ridge, Kamenskoye Gorge.

Type series: Syntypes are kept in ZIN (accession numbers 7905–7918).

Type hosts: Clethrionomys frater (Thomas, 1908) and Microtus gregalis.

Host range: The principal hosts of this species are voles belonging to various genera— Arvicola, Clethrionomys, Microtus (Senotrusova 1987; Nikulina 2004). In the Transbaikalian region, H. transiliensis was collected exclusively from the narrow-headed vole (M. gregalis) [Goncharova et al. 1991]. In different areas of Asiatic Russia, the mite was occasionally sampled from other small mammals, including shrews, mice, muskrats, hamsters etc. (Nikulina 2004).

Distribution: Northern and Central Asia, the Near East. The species inhabits Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Inner Mongolia, Pakistan (Daniel 1977; Tenorio 1984; Senotrusova 1987; Halliday et al. 2018). In Asiatic Russia, H. transiliensis occurs in Siberia except of the northern latitudes; a single recording from the South Urals is known (Davydova & Nikol’sky 1986; Goncharova et al. 1991; Nikulina 2004).

Notes: A subspecies (H. transiliensis neimongkuensis Yao, 1966) was described from Inner Mongolia (China) [Yao, 1966; Tenorio 1984].