Berlese, 1889 : 2
Dugès, 1834 : 18
G. Canestrini, 1884 : 1569
Ewing, 1933 : 3
Přívora & Samšiňák, 1957 : 270
Zhou, Gu & Wen, 1995 : 172
An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina)
Vinarski, Maxim V.
Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P.
Zootaxa
2017
4273
1
1
18
Berlese, 1889
Berlese
1889
[238,604,404,430]
Arachnida
Laelapidae
Haemogamasus
Animalia
Mesostigmata
3
4
Arthropoda
genus
Haemogamasus Berlese, 1889: 2. Dermanyssus Dugès, 1834: 18, partim. Hypoaspis G. Canestrini, 1884: 1569, partim. Euhaemogamasus Ewing, 1933: 3. Groschaftella Přívora & Samšiňák, 1957: 270. Terasterna Zhou, Gu & Wen, 1995: 172, 175.
Type species: Haemogamasus hirsutus Berlese, 1889.
General morphological diagnosis: see Kim et al. (1987), Mašán & Fend’a (2010: 71).
Remarks. The genus was established by Berlese (1889)to include the single species, Hg. hirsutusfrom the European mole ( Fig. 1). This species has not been found in Asiatic Russiaalthough numerous recordings of Hg. hirsutusfrom the European part of the former USSRare known ( Nikulina, 2004). The most important taxonomic works on the genus are those by Vitzthum (1930), Bregetova (1949, 1956a), Keegan (1951), Evans & Till (1966), Allred (1969), Williams et al. (1978), Haitlinger (1988), and Lundquist (1990). The species of the genus were thought to inhabit all continents, except South America( Bregetova, 1956a; Williams et al., 1978; Lundquist, 1990), but later records of Haemogamasusfrom Argentinaand Chilehave now been published ( Mosquera, 1988; Casanueva et al., 1994; Herrin & Sage, 2012). The genus includes about 60 species, 12 of which have been recorded in Europe (Mašán & Fend’a, 2010) and nearly 30 species in the former USSR( Senotrusova, 1987; Goncharova et al., 1991). Oneof these species, Hg. pontiger(Berlese, 1904), is of almost cosmopolitan distribution, being recorded from the Old World, the Americas, Antarcticaand Australia( Lundquist, 1990; Halliday, 2011). Ecologically, most species of Haemogamasusare parasites of small mammals and abundant in their hosts’ nests and shelters ( Balashov, 2009). Ingeneral, these mites are opportunistic parasites able to exploit a wide range of host species ( Bregetova, 1949); some of them were collected also from birds and birds’ nests ( Haitlinger, 1988; Gwaizdowicz et al., 2006). Stricthost specificity in the genus is rarely observed ( Bregetova& Nel’zina, 1952). Sometaxa ( Hg. pontiger) are regarded as predators ( Halliday, 2011), and their relationships with Micromammaliaare rather indirect. Therole of different Haemogamasusspecies as vectors of viruses and other pathogenic microorganisms has been elucidated by many authors ( Zemskaya, 1973; Yakimenko et al., 2000; Valiente Moro et al., 2005; Žákovská et al., 2008; Mi’tkova et al., 2015).
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USSR
Russia
Mi'tkova
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South America
Zakovska
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