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Laelaps pitymydis Lange 1955

Description

Laelaps pitymydis Lange, 1955

Laelaps pitymydis Lange, 1955: 330.

Records in Baltic States: Latvia (Grinbergs 1982b; Lapina 1988; Salmane 2001).

Hosts: M. minutus (LV).

European distribution: no records.

Notes: probable misidentification. The distribution of L. pitymydis covers only Caucasus and Transcaucasia regions (Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956).

Notes

Published as part of Kitrytė, Neringa & Baltrūnaitė, Laima, 2023, Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 5353 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8426731

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Laelapidae
Genus
Laelaps
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lange
Species
pitymydis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Laelaps pitymydis Lange, 1955 sec. Kitrytė & Baltrūnaitė, 2023

References

  • Lange, A. B. (1955) The genus Laelaps. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 59, 324 - 340. [in Russian]
  • Grinbergs, A. (1982 b) Mites of the genus Laelaps (Gamasoidea, Parasitiformes) on small mammals in Latvia. In: Latvijas PSR Bezmugurkaulnieku Fauna, Aizsardziba un Racionala Izmanto s ana, pp. 49 - 70. [in Latvian]
  • Lapina, I. M. (1988) Gamasid mites of Latvia. Zinatne, Riga. 187 pp. [in Russian]
  • Salmane, I. (2001) A check-list of Latvian Gamasina mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) with short notes to their ecology. Latvijas Entomologs, 38, 27 - 38.
  • Bregetova, N. G., Bulanova-Zakhvatkin, E. M., Volgin, V. I., Dubinin, V. B., Zakhvatkin, A. A., Zemskaya, A. A., Lange, A. B., Pavlovsky, E. N., Serdyukova, G. V. & Schluger, E. G. (1955) Mites of rodents in the fauna of USSR. Opred. po faune SSSR, izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow. 458 pp. [in Russian]
  • Bregetova, N. G. (1956) Gamasid mites (Gamasoidea). A brief guide. Identification books of the USSR fauna. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad, 247 pp. [in Russian]