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Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma 1951

Description

Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951

Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951b: 18, fig. d.

Haemogamasus kusumotoi.— Bregetova, 1956a: 142; Bregetova, 1956b: 1652; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 133; Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961: 278, fig. 3 (1–6); Allred, 1969: 110, fig. M-14; Garrett & Allred, 1971: 294; Nikulina, 1987: 223, fig. 116 (2, 19); Goncharova et al., 1991: 54.

Type locality. China, northwestern Manchuria.

Type specimens. According to Strandtmann & Wharton (1958), the type specimen was in the collection of K. Asanuma; its current location is unknown.

Type host. Marmota sibirica.

Principal hosts. In Transbaikalia, Hg. kusumotoi is known as a common inhabitant of nests of hamsters – Cricetulus barabensis and Phodopus sungorus (Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961; Goncharova et al., 1991). In Manchuria, the species was collected from several species of rodents of the genera Apodemus, Mus, Rattus, Tscherskia and some others (Bregetova, 1956b).

Distribution. Central Asia, Turkey (Allred, 1969; Garrett & Allred, 1971; Goncharova et al., 1991). In Asiatic Russia, Hg. kusumotoi has been recorded from Transbaikalia and Republic of Buryatia (Goncharova et al., 1991; Nikulina, 2004).

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 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/818303

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Laelapidae
Genus
Haemogamasus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Asanuma
Species
kusumotoi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951 sec. Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2017

References

  • Asanuma, K. (1951 b) Critical notes on the genera Euhaemogamasus Ewing and Haemogamasus Berlese, with description of a new species from Manchuria (Acari, Laelaptidae, Haeogamasinae). Miscellaneous Reports of the Research Institute for Natural Resources, Tokyo, 24, 15 - 21.
  • Bregetova, N. G. (1956 a) Gamasid mites (Gamasoidea). Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 61, 1 - 247. [in Russian]
  • Bregetova, N. G. (1956 b) New data about mites of the family Haemogamasidae (Parasitiformes, Gamasoidea) of the USSR fauna. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 1956, 1647 - 1656. [in Russian]
  • Strandtmann, R. W. & Wharton, G. W. (1958) A Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites Parasitic on Vertebrates. University of Maryland, College Park, 330 pp.
  • Goncharova, A. A. & Buyakova, T. G. (1961) To the study of mites of the family Haemogamasidae (Parasitiformes, Gamasoidea) in the USSR. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 40 (2), 276 - 280. [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.
  • Garrett, D. A. & Allred, D. M. (1971) Mesostigmatid mites from Turkey, with keys to genera and species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 8, 292 - 298.
  • Nikulina, N. A. (1987) Gamasid mites (cohort Gamasina). In: Soboleva, R. G. (Ed.), Insects and mites of the Far East of Medical and Veterinary Importance. Nauka, Leningrad, pp. 216 - 234. [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]
  • Nikulina, N. A. (2004) A catalogue of parasitic Gamasina mites of mammals of Northern Eurasia (Russia). Aktsioner & Co, Saint-Petersburg, 170 pp. [in Russian]