Hirstionyssus criceti (Sulzer, 1774)

Acarus criceti Sulzer 1774: 33 .

Ceratonyssus criceti — Oudemans 1929: 96, fig. 17.

Liponyssus criceti — Oudemans 1932: 203.

Hirstionyssus criceti — Zemskaya 1955: 360, figs 775, 776; Bregetova 1956: 185, 194, figs 403, 432–436, 479–482; Lange 1958: 216, pl. LXXVIII (Д); Piryanik 1962: 109; Zemskaya 1973: 86; Koroleva 1977: 137, figs 4(1), 6(2); Nikulina 1987: 233, 234, fig. 118(8); Senotrusova 1987: 91, fig. 44; Goncharova et al. 1991: 66; Mašán & Fend’a 2010: 127, figs 123–128.

Echinonyssus criceti— Tenorio 1984: 266.

Type locality: Germany .

Type series: Lost (Tenorio 1984).

Type host: Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus, 1758), the European hamster.

Host range: The main hosts of H. criceti are hamsters and ground squirrels (Bregetova 1956; Zemskaya 1973; Mašán & Fend’a 2010). Occasionally, the mite has been collected from a broad range of hosts, including different species of voles, mice, mustelids etc.

Distribution: Northern Eurasia eastward to the Russian Far East (Nikulina 2004; Mašán & Fend’a 2010); Armenia and Iran (Zemskaya 1955; Zemskaya et al. 1975). In Asiatic Russia it has been recorded from South Siberia; an isolated (?) part of species’ range lies in the extreme northeast of Asia, where H. criceti is associated with Spermophilus parryi (Richardson, 1825), the Beringian ground squirrel (Yudin et al. 1976).