Laelaps pitymydis Lange, 1955

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scientific name	Laelaps pitymydis Lange, 1955
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Laelaps pitymydis Lange, 1955: 330 .

Records in Baltic States: Latvia ( Grinbergs 1982b; Lapina 1988; Salmane 2001).

Hosts: M. minutus (LV) .

European distribution: no records.

Notes: probable misidentification. The distribution of L. pitymydis covers only Caucasus and Transcaucasia regions ( Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956).

Bregetova, N. G., Bulanova-Zakhvatkin, E. M., Volgin, V. I., Dubinin, V. B., Zakhvatkin, A. A., Zemskaya, A. A., Lange, A. B., Pavlovsky, E. N., Serdyukova, G. V. & Schluger, E. G. (1955) Mites of rodents in the fauna of USSR. Opred. po faune SSSR, izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow. 458 pp. [in Russian]

Bregetova, N. G. (1956) Gamasid mites (Gamasoidea). A brief guide. Identification books of the USSR fauna. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad, 247 pp. [in Russian]

Grinbergs, A. (1982 b) Mites of the genus Laelaps (Gamasoidea, Parasitiformes) on small mammals in Latvia. In: Latvijas PSR Bezmugurkaulnieku Fauna, Aizsardziba un Racionala Izmanto s ana, pp. 49 - 70. [in Latvian]

Lange, A. B. (1955) The genus Laelaps. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 59, 324 - 340. [in Russian]

Lapina, I. M. (1988) Gamasid mites of Latvia. Zinatne, Riga. 187 pp. [in Russian]

Salmane, I. (2001) A check-list of Latvian Gamasina mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) with short notes to their ecology. Latvijas Entomologs, 38, 27 - 38.