Haemogamasus dauricus Bregetova, 1950

Haemogamasus dauricus Bregetova, 1950: 15, fig. 2.

Haemogamasus dauricus.— Bregetova, 1955: 263, 270, figs 486–488; Bregetova, 1956a: 133, 141, 157, figs 264–267, 318– 319; Bregetova, 1956b: 1654, fig. 6; Lange, 1958: 209, fig. 52, G; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 132; Allred, 1969: 109; Zemskaya, 1973: 119; Nikulina, 1987: 224, 225, fig. 116 (5, 20); Senotrusova, 1987: 35, fig. 15; Goncharova et al., 1991: 53; Fyodorova & Kharadov, 2012: 275, 277.

Type locality. Russia, Transbaikalia, “ Daurian steppe” (without exact locality).

Syntypes. ZIN (the holotype was not designated). The type series comprises three specimens (females).

Type host. The Tarbagan marmot, Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862). The mites were collected from its burrow.

Host range. Haemogamasus dauricus was collected from a wide range of small mammal species (rodents and insectivores), which makes difficult to define its principal hosts (Bregetova, 1956a; Senotrusova, 1987; Goncharova et al., 1991).

Distribution. Southern part of European Russia (Saratov Region), Siberia, Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), China, Mongolia (Allred, 1969; Petrova & Taskayeva 1974; Senotrusova, 1987; Goncharova et al., 1991; Li, 1991; Nikulina, 2004)