Hirstionyssus sciurinus (Hirst, 1921)

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 : 110-111

Hirstionyssus sciurinus (Hirst, 1921)

Liponyssus sciurinus Hirst 1921b: 785 , figs 28a, 29.

Hirstionyssus sciurinus — Fonseca 1948: 298; Willmann 1952: 407; Zemskaya 1955: 359, figs 764, 765; Bregetova 1956: 167, 187, figs 378, 379, 397, 450; Lange 1958: 214, pl. LXXVII (Е); Koroleva 1977: 134, figs 2(3), 5(5); Nikulina 1987: 233, 234, fig. 118(5); Senotrusova 1987: 73, fig. 35; Mašán & Fend’a 2010: 149, figs 154–159.

Hirstionyssus (Sciurinyssus) sciurinus Koyumdzhieva 1978: 53 .

Echinonyssus sciurinus — Tenorio 1984: 277.

Hirstionyssus sciurinus — Goncharova et al. 1991: 77.

Type locality: France, Briançon .

Type series: NHMUK (syntypes) .

Type host: Sciurus vulgaris , the Eurasian red squirrel.

Host range: In addition to Sciurus vulgaris , this mite can use as its secondary hosts other species of rodentsmice, voles, dormice ( Senotrusova 1987; Mašán & Fend’a 2010).

Distribution: Northern Eurasia, including Kazakhstan and Northern China ( Tenorio 1984; Senotrusova 1987). The range of this mite coincides with the range of its principal host, S. vulgaris .