Eulaelaps cricetuli Vitzthum, 1930

Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2017, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), Zootaxa 4273 (1), pp. 1-18 : 2

Eulaelaps cricetuli Vitzthum, 1930

Eulaelaps cricetuli Vitzthum, 1930: 413 , figs 7–9.

Eulaelaps cricetuli .— Bregetova, 1955: 319, figs 650, 654; Bregetova, 1956a: 104, figs 174, 183–186; Lange, 1958: 201, pl. LXXI, D; Strandmann & Wharton, 1958: 128; Goncharova & Buyakova, 1962: 141, fig. 1–3; Allred, 1969: 108, fig. P-5B; Senotrusova, 1987: 152, fig. 74; Goncharova et al., 1991: 19.

Type locality. Northern China (without exact locality).

Type specimens. The Vitzthum collection is kept in Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates München ( Germany).

Type host. Roborowski’s hamster, Phodopus roborowskii (Satunin, 1903) = Phodopus bedfordiae (Thomas, 1908) , and Dipus sowerbyi Thomas, 1908 .

Principal hosts. In Asiatic Russia—two species of hamsters: Cricetulus barabensis (Pallas, 1773) , and Phodopus sungorus (Pallas, 1773) (Goncharova & Buyakova, 1962). Also, it is more or less common in nests of the narrow-headed vole, Microtus gregalis (Pallas, 1779) in Transbaikalia ( Goncharova et al., 1991) .

Distribution. Northern and Central Asia, including Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the northern Far East ( Goncharova et al., 1991). It is widely distributed in Asiatic Russia excluding the northernmost latitudes. Recorded in Central Yakutia and Kamchatka ( Nikulina, 2004).