Hirstionyssus talpae Zemskaya 1955
- 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 talpae
biology_ecology
Host range: In Eurasia, the principal hosts of this mite are moles of the genus Talpa — T. europaea and T. altaica Nikol’sky, 1883 (Zemskaya 1973; Senotrusova 1987). It is very numerous in mole nests (Evans & Till 1966). In North America, the hosts of this species are the star-nosed mole [Condylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)] and many species of shrews belonging to different genera (Blarina Gray, 1838, Cryptotis Pomel, 1848, Sorex Linnaeus, 1758) [Whittaker et al. 2007]. In New Zealand, H. talpae has been recorded from the introduced Erinaeus europaeus (Linnaeus, 1758), the European hedgehog (Tenquist & Charleston 2001). Occasional findings of this parasite on different rodent hosts are known (Nikulina 2004; Mašán & Fend’a 2010).
distribution
Distribution: The range of H. talpae is very wide. This mite is known from the Holarctic as well as from very distant regions such as New Zealand (Herrin 1970; Tenorio 1984; Tenquist & Charleston 2001; Whitaker et al. 2007). In Asiatic Russia, the species has been recorded from Western and Eastern Siberia (Nikulina 2004); its occurrence in the Russian Far East is also probable.
materials_examined
Type locality: No exact locality was stated. Zemskaya (1955) mentioned H. talpae from the Moscow Region of Russia and the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine. Type series: Unknown (possibly in EMAMS). Type host: Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758, the European mole.
Name
- Homonyms
- Hirstionyssus talpae Zemskaya 1955