Haemogamasus nidi Michael, 1892

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 : 10-11

Haemogamasus nidi Michael, 1892

Haemogamasus nidi Michael, 1892: 314 , pl. XXXII, figs 6–7.

Euhaemogamasus ambulans .— Keegan, 1951: 228, fig. 41, 46 (partim).

Euhaemogamasus nidi .— Bregetova, 1949: 168.

Euhaemogamasus onychomydis Ewing, 1933: 4 , pl. 1, fig. 3.

Euhaemogamasus oregonensis Ewing, 1933: 5 , pl. 2, fig. 1.

Euhaemogamasus sciuropteri Keegan 1946: 72 , figs 8, 9.

Haemogamasus michaeli Oudemans 1903: 87 , pl. VI, figs 33–39.

Haemogamasus michaeli .— Oudemans, 1913: 155, textfigs 108–140.

Haemogamasus nidi .— Oudemans 1903: 89; Hirst, 1914: 121, pl. XVI, fig. 8; Bregetova, 1955: 264, 286, figs 396, 404, 489, 490, 565–567; Bregetova, 1956a: 134, 155, figs 268–271, 344–347; Lange, 1958: 210, fig. 51, Zh; Mrciak, 1958: 71; Kozlowski, 1960: 409, fig. 1 (partim); Piryanik, 1962: 105; Evans & Till, 1966: 254, fig. 59; Allred, 1969: 110; Redington, 1970: 665; Karg 1971: 188, fig. 203d; Zemskaya, 1973: 100, fig. 15; Evans & Till, 1979: 239, fig. 33, a–j; Senotrusova, 1987: 37, fig. 16; Haitlinger, 1988: 648, figs 25–27; Lundquist, 1990: 332, figs 2, A, 3, A, 4; Goncharova et al., 1991: 47; Karg, 1993: 166; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 94, figs 59, 70, 78, 96–98; Fyodorova & Kharadov, 2012: 276, 277.

Haemogamasus reidi Ewing 1925: 140 .

Haemogamasus reidi .— Vitzthum, 1930: 404; Redington, 1970: 643, figs 1–37; Williams et al., 1978: 255, figs 7 a–n.

Haemogamasus twitchelli Ewing 1925: 142 .

Type locality. England (without exact locality).

Holotype. Natural History Museum, London (fide Lundquist & Edler, 1979).

Type host. The common mole, Talpa europaea (L., 1758), in nests.

Host range. Haemogamasus nidi has a very wide spectrum of hosts, including numerous species of rodents and insectivores ( Bregetova, 1956a; Zemskaya, 1973; Whitaker & Wilson, 1974; Goncharova et al., 1991; Whitaker et al., 2007). May feed also on small birds (sparrows) and bats ( Haitlinger, 1988).

Distribution. Holarctic. In all areas of Asiatic Russia.

Remarks. Sludsky (2014) listed Hg. nidi among mite species able to harbour Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the plague