Haemogamasus kitanoi Asanuma 1948
- 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
- Haemogamasus
- species
- Haemogamasus kitanoi
biology_ecology
Host range. The species exploits a wide spectrum of hosts, including different species of voles, hamsters, and pikas (Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961; Senotrusova, 1972, 1973).
discussion
Remarks. Re-descriptions of Hg. kitanoi on the basis of an expanded set of morphological characters were published by Asanuma (1951 a) and Senotrusova (1972). Senotrusova (1973) described the life cycle and other peculiarities of biology of this mite. Davydova (1966) distinguished three subspecies of Hg. kitanoi (including one that lives in nests of the European sand martin, Riparia riparia). No subsequent acarologist in Russia has accepted this division (Senotrusova, 1972, 1987; Nikulina, 1987; Goncharova et al., 1991). Sludsky (2014) listed Hg. kitanoi among mite species able to harbour Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the plague
distribution
Distribution. Northern and Central Asia, Pakistan, possibly Taiwan (Dusbabek, 1966; Allred, 1969; Nikulina, 2004). In Asiatic Russia, Hg. kitanoi has been recorded from various parts of southern Siberia, also from Yakutia and Sakhalin Island (Davydova, 1966; Nikulina, 2004).
materials_examined
Type locality. China, northwestern Manchuria. Type specimens. According to Strandtmann & Wharton (1958), the type specimen was in the collection of K. Asanuma, but its current location is unknown. Type host. Marmota sibirica.
Name
- Homonyms
- Haemogamasus kitanoi Asanuma 1948