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Androlaelaps angustiscutis Bregetova 1952

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16. Androlaelaps angustiscutis (Bregetova, 1952)

Haemolaelaps angustiscutis Bregetova, 1952: 867, figs 9, 10, 14, 15; Bregetova, 1955a: 306, 313, figs 610, 611, 624, 629. Androlaelaps angustiscutis. Bregetova, 1977b: 532, figs 424, 426, 2; Senotrusova, 1987: 186, fig. 92. Haemolaelaps fragilis Chen et al., 1995: 228.

Type locality. Syntypes (ZIN collection) were collected in Tajikistan and Turkmenia.

Type hosts. Meriones erythrourus (Gray, 1842) = M. libycus Lichtenstein, 1823; Rhombomys opimus (Lichtenstein, 1823).

Principal hosts. Gerbils of the genera Meriones Illiger, 1811 and Rhombomys Wagner, 1841.

Distribution. The species has been recorded from Central Asia (Tajikistan, Turkmenia), western and southeastern Kazakhstan, and Ninxia Hui Autonomous Region, Northwestern China (Bregetova, 1952; Senotrusova, 1987; Chen et al., 1995; Ma, 2006). The only published record of A. angustiscutis in Asiatic Russia is that by Davydova & Nikolsky (1986). The authors included this species in their list of gamasid mites of the steppe zone of Western Siberia, without giving concrete localities. Also, a female of A. angustiscutis was collected in July of 1983 from the Daurian pica, Ochotona daurica (Pallas, 1776), in the Tes-Khem District of Tuva Republic, Russia, situated in south Siberia close to the Russian-Mongolian border (ORINF archives, unpublished). This locality lies not far from Ninxia Region of China, and it seems likely that A. angustiscutis is widely distributed in Central Asia, including adjacent parts of Siberia.

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 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256941

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References

  • Bregetova, N. G. (1955 a) Gamasoidea. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 59, 243 - 324. [in Russian]
  • 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]
  • Senotrusova, V. G. (1987) Gamasid mites - parasites of wild animals in Kazakhstan. Nauka, Alma-Ata, 224 pp. [in Russian]
  • Chen, B., Bai, X. & Gu, J. (1995) A new species of Haemolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) from Ningxia, China. Entomotaxonomia, 17, 228 - 230. [in Chinese]
  • Ma, L. - M. (2006) New synonyms of gamasid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata). Acta Arachnologica Sinica, 15, 23 - 26. [in Chinese]
  • Davydova, M. S., & Nikolsky, V. V. (1986) Gamasid mites of Western Siberia. Nauka, Novosibirsk, 124 pp. [in Russian]