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Laelaps echidninus Berlese 1887

  • 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 echidninus Berlese, 1887

Laelaps echidninus Berlese, 1887b: 1.

Echinolaelaps echidninus.— Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 72; Alwar & Lalitha, 1960: 56; Rao et al., 1973: 1454; Pawar et al., 2016: 27.

Laelaps (Echinolaelaps) echidninus.— Bhat et al., 1983: 99; Mitchell et al., 1966: 118; Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016: 227; Govindarajan et al., 2021: 64.

Laelaps echidnina.— Mishra et al., 1977: 47.

Collection records in India: Madras, on rodents (Alwar & Lalitha, 1960); Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, Rattus blanfordi and R. rattus narbadae (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mitchell et al., 1966); Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, on rat and shrew (Rao et al., 1973); Western Ghats, Poona, on Vandeleuria oleracea (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mishra et al., 1977); multiple localities, on multiple species of small mammals (Bhat et al., 1983); Pune, in rat’s nest (Pawar et al., 2016); Madurai, Tamil Nadu, on pest rodents and shrews (Govindarajan et al., 2021).

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 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572

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References

  • Berlese, A. (1887 b) Acari, Myriopoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italia reperta, 39, 17 (text), 10 pls. [reprint by Junk, The Hague, 1979]
  • Strandtmann, R. W. & Wharton, G. W. (1958) Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites Parasitic on Vertebrates. Institute of Acarology, College Park, Maryland, 330 pp., 69 pls.
  • Alwar, V. S. & Lalitha, C. M. (1960) The incidence of Haemolaelaps casalis (Berlese, 1887) Acarina: Laelaptidae on a fowl in Madras. Ceylon Veterinary Journal, 8, 56 - 57.
  • 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.
  • Pawar, S., Jogdand, S., Jadhav, M. & Deokar, T. (2016) Effect of environment on seasonal dynamics of rat house mites at Pune. International Journal of Entomology Research, 1 (4), 26 - 32.
  • 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.
  • Mitchell, C. J., Hoogstraal, H., Schaller, G. B. & Spillett, J. (1966) Ectoparasites from mammals in Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, and their potential disease relationships. Journal of Medical Entomology, 3, 113 - 124. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 3.2.113
  • 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
  • Govindarajan, R., Rajamannar, V., Krishnamoorthi, R., Nagaraj, J., Ashwani, K. & Samuel, P. (2021) Species composition of mites (Acari: Trombiculidae, Dermanyssidae, Laelapidae) on pest rodents and shrews in Madurai, India. Halteres, 12, 61 - 68.
  • 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.