Hirstionyssus criceti ( Sulzer, 1774 )

Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2020, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Hirstionyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 102-118 : 106

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).