Eulaelaps kolpakovae Bregetova 1950
Description
Eulaelaps kolpakovae Bregetova, 1950
Eulaelaps kolpakovae Bregetova, 1950: 13, fig. 1.
Eulaelaps kolpakovae.— Bregetova, 1955: 319, figs 649, 651, 655–659; Bregetova, 1956a: 102, figs 172, 176, 179-182; Lange, 1958: 201, pl. LXXI, G; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 128; Piryanik, 1962: 84; Allred, 1969: 108, fig. P-4; Senotrusova, 1987: 150, fig. 73; Goncharova et al., 1991: 24.
Eulaelaps novus.— Evans & Till, 1966: 263, fig. 62 (partim); Evans & Till, 1979: 239, fig. 33, g, h, k (partim); Karg, 1993: 166 (partim); Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 108, figs 105, 106, 109 (partim).
Type locality. Russia, Astrakhan’ Region, Staryi Tuzukley settlement.
Type specimens. ZIN. The type specimens included 12 syntypes (females only), now only ten of them (eight slides) remain in the collection.
Type host. Arvicola terrestris (L., 1758), the European water vole.
Host range. This species is a predatory mite with a weak tendency towards hematophagy (Goncharova et al., 1991). It has been collected from a wide spectrum of rodents and insectivores (mainly from their burrows) and birds (from nests). Eu. kolpakovae does not demonstrate a specific relationship with any particular species of mammal hosts (Goncharova et al., 1991).
Distribution. Southern part of Eastern Europe, the Urals, Central Asia, southern Siberia and the Russian Far East. Its distribution in Asiatic Russia roughly coincides with that of Eu. cricetuli (Nikulina, 2004).
Remarks. Evans & Till (1966) proposed to synonymise Eulaelaps kolpakovae with Eu. novus Vitzthum, 1925. This opinion was accepted by Karg (1971), Haitlinger (1988) and Mašán & Fend’a (2010), among others. However, Senotrusova (1976, 1987) and Goncharova et al. (1991) provided additional morphological evidence in favour Eu. kolpakovae as a separate species. Mašán & Fend’a (2010), in their discussion of the taxonomic position of Eu. kolpakovae, did not consider these arguments. Senotrusova (1976, 1987) believes that Eu. novus is merely an intraspecific form of Eu. stabularis. According to Strandtmann & Wharton (1958), Vitzthum, the author of the species Eu. novus, also assumed that this taxon may represent ‘a small form of stabularis ’. Thus, the taxonomic status of these two species needs a new revision. Sludsky (2014) listed Eu. kolpakovae among mite species able to harbour Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the plague.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Laelapidae
- Genus
- Eulaelaps
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Mesostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bregetova
- Species
- kolpakovae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eulaelaps kolpakovae Bregetova, 1950 sec. Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2017
References
- Bregetova, N. G. (1950) New species of gamasid mites (Acarina, Gamasoidea). Parazitologicheskiy sbornik Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 12, 13 - 16. [in Russian]
- Bregetova, N. G. (1955) The family Haemogamasidae Ouds. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 59, 258 - 287. [in Russian]
- Bregetova, N. G. (1956 a) Gamasid mites (Gamasoidea). Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 61, 1 - 247. [in Russian]
- Lange, A. B. (1958) Superfamily Gamasoidea. In: Beklemishev, V. N. (Ed.), Key to arthropods injuring human health. Medgiz, Moscow, pp. 195 - 217. [in Russian]
- Strandtmann, R. W. & Wharton, G. W. (1958) A Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites Parasitic on Vertebrates. University of Maryland, College Park, 330 pp.
- Piryanik, G. I. (1962) Gamasid Mites of Mouse - like Rodents of the Ukrainian Forest - steppe. Kiev University Press, Kiev, 176 pp. [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.
- 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]
- 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.
- Evans, G. O. & Till, W. M. (1979) Mesostigmatic mites of Britain and Ireland. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 35, 139 - 270.
- Karg, W. (1993) Acari (Acarina), Milben Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta), Cohors Gamasina Leach, Raubmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, 59, 1 - 523.
- Nikulina, N. A. (2004) A catalogue of parasitic Gamasina mites of mammals of Northern Eurasia (Russia). Aktsioner & Co, Saint-Petersburg, 170 pp. [in Russian]
- Karg, W. (1971) Acari (Acarina), Milben. Unterordnung Anactinochaeta (Parasitiformes). Die freilebenden Gamasina (Gamasides), Raubmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, 59, 1 - 475.
- Haitlinger, R. (1988) Haemogamasidae Oudemans, 1926 (Acari, Mesostigmata) of Poland. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 58, 635 - 662.
- Senotrusova, V. G. (1976) Eulaelaps novus Vitzth., 1925, a separate species of mites. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademii Nauk Kazakhskoi SSR, 36, 86 - 91. [in Russian]
- Sludsky, A. A. (2014) The epizootology of the plague (a review of studies and hypotheses). Saratov, 1, 1 - 313. [in Russian]