Androlaelaps glasgowi (Ewing 1925) Ewing 1925
- Dataset
- An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Laelapidae s. str. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Mesostigmata
- family
- Laelapidae
- genus
- Androlaelaps
- species
- Androlaelaps glasgowi
discussion
Remarks. In the Russian literature, including the most recent publications (Nikulina, 2004; Kryukov, 2005; Mal’kova, 2010), the species has been known under the taxonomic name Androlaelaps (or Haemolaelaps) glasgowi. This usage is conventionally followed here for the sake of convenience, though in the vast majority of recent acarological publications another taxonomic name, A. fahrenholzi (Berlese, 1911), is used.
distribution
Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Evans & Till, 1966). In Asiatic Russia, it is widely distributed (Nikulina, 2004).
materials_examined
Type locality. USA, Illinois, Urbana. Type host. A “ wild rat ”. Principal hosts. Undefinable. A. glasgowi does not exhibit the host specificity and infests a wide range of hosts, including diverse taxa of rodents, bats, small carnivores and insectivores (Strandtmann, 1949; Evans & Till, 1966; Zemskaya, 1973; Goncharova et al., 1991).