Haemogamasus transbaicalicus Buyakova & Goncharova, 1964

Haemogamasus transcaicalicus Buyakova & Goncharova 1964: 768, figs 1, 2.

Haemogamasus transbaicalicus.— Allred, 1969: 111; Zemskaya, 1973: 119; Goncharova et al., 1991: 46.

Type locality. Russia, Eastern Siberia, Chita City.

Syntypes. ZIN and the Department of General Biology of the Chita Medical Institute.

Type host. No. The species was described as a free-living mite found in cellars.

Host range. Haemogamasus transbaicalicus is common in vegetable stores and may occasionally be recorded on house mouse. Some species of wild rodents are also hosts of this mite but its abundance on small mammals is very low (Goncharova et al., 1991).

Distribution. Western and Eastern Siberia, in southern parts of these regions (Goncharova et al., 1991).