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Laelaps turkestanicus Lange 1955

  • 1. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India pritha. bandyopadhyay 31 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2450 - 7880
  • 2. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India kkbckv 64 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5582 - 3560
  • 3. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Description

Laelaps turkestanicus Lange, 1955

Laelaps (Rattilaelaps) turkestanicus Lange, 1955: 329.

Laelaps turkestanicus.— Tipton, 1960: 284; Rao et al., 1973: 1454; Mishra et al., 1977: 47; Bhat et al., 1983: 98; Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016: 232.

Collection records in India: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, on rats (Rao et al., 1973); Western Ghats, Pune, on Rattus rattus rufescens (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mishra et al., 1977); Multiple localities, on multiple species of Mus and Rattus (Bhat et al., 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna & Halliday, Bruce, 2023, Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 5249 (4) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572

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References

  • Lange, A. B. (1955) The genus Laelaps s. lat. C. L. Koch. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 59, 324 - 340.
  • Tipton, V. J. (1960) The genus Laelaps, with a review of the Laelaptinae and a new subfamily Alphalaelaptinae (Acarina: Laelaptidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 16, 233 - 356.
  • Rao, T. R., Dhanda, V. & Kulkarni, S. M. (1973) A survey of haematophagous arthropods in Western Himalayas, Sikkim and Hill Districts of West Bengal. A general account. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 61, 1421 - 1461.
  • Mishra, A. C., Dhanda, V. & Kulkarni, S. M. (1977) Ectoparasites from small mammals from Western Ghats of Poona District, Maharashtra. Journal of Communicable Diseases, 9, 40 - 48.
  • Bhat, H. R., Kulkarni, S. M. & Mishra, A. C. (1983) Records of Mesostigmata, Ereynetidae and Pterygosomidae (Acarina) in Western Himalayas, Sikkim and Hill Districts of West Bengal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 80, 91 - 110.
  • Vinarski, M. V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, N. P. (2016) An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Laelapidae s. str. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina). Zootaxa, 4111 (3), 223 - 245. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4111.3.2