Laelaps echidninus Berlese 1887
- 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
- Ascidae
- genus
- Laelaps
- species
- Laelaps echidninus
distribution
Distribution. Virtually cosmopolitan (in tropical and temperate zones). The range of L. echidninus coincides with the range of its principal hosts, Rattus spp. (Strandtmann & Mitchell, 1963; Zemskaya, 1973). In Asiatic Russia, the species has been recorded from Eastern Siberia and the Far East (Amur Region, Sakhalin Island), however, no recordings from Western Siberia are known to date (Zemskaya, 1973; Nikulina, 2004). Although Strandtmann & Mitchell (1963) report this mite from a wide range of hosts, including tupaids, sciurid rodents, and a wide range of muroid rodents, L. echidninus is primarily associated with the cosmopolitan domestic rat species Rattus rattus and R. norvegicus.
materials_examined
Type locality. Italia (Toscana). Type host. Mus decumanus Pallas, 1778 = Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769). Principal hosts. Domestic rats of the genus Rattus Fischer, 1803.
Name
- Homonyms
- Laelaps echidninus Berlese 1887