Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951

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Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951

Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951b: 18 , fig. d.

Haemogamasus kusumotoi .— Bregetova, 1956a: 142; Bregetova, 1956b: 1652; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 133; Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961: 278, fig. 3 (1–6); Allred, 1969: 110, fig. M-14; Garrett & Allred, 1971: 294; Nikulina, 1987: 223, fig. 116 (2, 19); Goncharova et al., 1991: 54.

Type locality. China, northwestern Manchuria.

Type specimens. According to Strandtmann & Wharton (1958), the type specimen was in the collection of K. Asanuma; its current location is unknown.

Type host. Marmota sibirica .

Principal hosts. In Transbaikalia, Hg. kusumotoi is known as a common inhabitant of nests of hamsters – Cricetulus barabensis and Phodopus sungorus ( Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961; Goncharova et al., 1991). In Manchuria, the species was collected from several species of rodents of the genera Apodemus , Mus, Rattus , Tscherskia and some others ( Bregetova, 1956b).

Distribution. Central Asia, Turkey ( Allred, 1969; Garrett & Allred, 1971; Goncharova et al., 1991). In Asiatic Russia, Hg. kusumotoi has been recorded from Transbaikalia and Republic of Buryatia ( Goncharova et al., 1991; Nikulina, 2004).