Hirstionyssus butantanensis (Fonseca 1932)
- Dataset
- An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Hirstionyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Mesostigmata
- family
- Dermanyssidae
- genus
- Hirstionyssus
- species
- Hirstionyssus butantanensis
biology_ecology
Host range: H. butantanensis prefers murine rodents of the genera Mus and Rattus (Mašán & Fend’a 2010).
distribution
Distribution: Virtually cosmopolitan; the tight association of H. butantanensis with synanthropic rodents possibly explains its finding from areas far remoted from the type locality, e. g. in New Zealand (Tenquist & Charleston 2001). In Asiatic Russia, the species has been known (as H. latiscutatus) from Western Siberia and the southern parts of Eastern Siberia (Davydova & Nikol’sky 1986; Nikulina 2004). Notes: In Russian parasitological and acarological literature the name H. butantanensis is not in common use; most authors have used the name H. latiscutatus (see, for example, Zuevsky 1970; Nikulina 2004). The identity of Schrank’s (1803) mite species Acarus musculi (type host — the house mouse) is enigmatic due to the brevity of its original description and loss of the type series. Some authors (e. g. Baker & Wharton 1952) assigned this species to the genus Steatonyssus Kolenati, 1858. However, Steatonyssus mites are obligatory parasites of bats, and the finding of a member of this genus on the skin of a house mouse is very unlikely (Till & Evans 1964).
materials_examined
Type locality: Brazil, Sao Paulo. Type series: Brazil, Sao Paulo, Butantan Institute. Type host: Mus musculus (Linnaeus, 1758), albino morph (the white mouse)