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Laelaps nuttalli Hirst 1915

Description

12. Laelaps nuttalli Hirst, 1915

Laelaps nuttalli Hirst, 1915: 183, figs 1, 2.

Laelaps nuttalli. Bregetova, 1953: 312; Lange, 1955: 328, figs 675, 676; Bregetova, 1956: 110, 116, figs 192, 196; Lange, 1958: 204, pl. LXXIII, Е; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 66, figs 11, 29; Tipton, 1960: 278, figs 24a, 26i, 28a, 32m, 41b, 41 a, b; Tipton et al., 1966: 36; Tipton & Herrin, 1976: 157, figs 66–72; Domrow, 1988: 839, figs 46, 47; Nikulina, 1987: 230, 231, fig. 117, 3; Senotrusova, 1987: 173; Goncharova et al., 1991: 37.

Echinolaelaps caraco Lange, 1947 (appeared in an unpublished PhD thesis and, thus, unavailable)

Haemolaelaps nuttalli. Turk, 1950: 67.

Laelaps hawaiiensis Ewing, 1924: 8, fig. 1 a [fide Bregetova, 1956; Tipton et al., 1966]

Liponyssus bermudaensis Ewing, 1920: 290, textfig. 8.

Tetragonyssus bermudaensis Ewing, 1923: 11.

Type locality. Ceylon, Colombo.

Type hosts. Mus rattus and Mus norvegicus (both domestic species are classified within Rattus now).

Principal hosts. Domestic rats of the genus Rattus (Herrin & Tipton, 1976).

Distribution. L. nuttalli is a cosmopolitan species tightly associated with its principal hosts, rats of the genus Rattus. It is found wherever domestic Rattus species occur (Herrin & Tipton, 1976). However, Mašán & Fenďa (2010) believe that L. nuttalli has not been found on the European continent until recently and mention L. dolomydis Mrciak, 1974, which closely resembles L. nuttalli, as a distinct species in the European fauna. In Asiatic Russia, the species has been recorded from the southern parts of the Far East and Eastern Siberia, including Yakutia (Nikulina, 1987, 2004; Goncharova et al., 1991).

Notes

Published as part of Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2016, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Laelapidae s. str. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), pp. 223-245 in Zootaxa 4111 (3) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256941

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ologamasidae
Genus
Laelaps
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hirst
Species
nuttalli
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Laelaps nuttalli Hirst, 1915 sec. Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016

References

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