Eulaelaps stabularis (C. L. Koch 1839) C.L. Koch 1839
- Dataset
- An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Mesostigmata
- family
- Laelapidae
- genus
- Eulaelaps
- species
- Eulaelaps stabularis
biology_ecology
Host range. The list of mammals species parasitised by this mite is very wide. It includes more than 40 host taxa (Allred, 1969; Whitaker & Wilson, 1974; Whitaker et al., 2007). No principal host species can be identified for this opportunistic mite. Turk (1945: 135) characterised it as “ the commonnest species of acari to be found in the nests and on the bodies of small rodents and insectivores ”. Goncharova et al. (1991) state that Eu. stabularis is much more abundant in mammals’ nests than on their bodies.
description
Eulaelaps oribatoides. — Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 128.
distribution
Distribution. Almost cosmopolitan. In Asiatic Russia it is distributed throughout the region; the northern border of its distribution in Siberia coincides with the boundary of the forest-tundra zone (Goncharova et al., 1991). Eulaelaps stabularis was re-described by Uchikawa & Rack (1979).
materials_examined
Type locality. Germany (without exact locality). Type specimens. Type status and location unknown. Type host. None. Koch (1839: 1 – 2) described Gamasus stabularis as a free-living mite living in stables, kennels and similar habitats.