Laelaps algericus Hirst, 1925

Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2016, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Laelapidae s. str. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), Zootaxa 4111 (3), pp. 223-245 : 227

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3. Laelaps algericus Hirst, 1925

Laelaps algericus Hirst, 1925: 57 , fig. 6.

Laelaps algericus . — Lange, 1955: 328, figs 672–674; Bregetova, 1956: 116, fig. 191; Bregetova & Kolpakova, 1956: 187; Lange, 1958: 204, pl. LXXII, G; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 59; Tipton, 1960: 266, figs 24b, 27b, 28f, 32c; Costa, 1961: 37, figs 60–65; Zemskaya, 1973: 142; Senotrusova, 1987: 162, fig. 80; Mašán & Fenďa, 2010: 16, 27, figs 4, 9.

Type locality. Algeria, Tougourt.

Type host. Mus algericus (Thomas, 1902) . The identity of the binomen “ Mus algericus ” is obscure. Possibly, the type specimens of L. algericus were collected from Psammomys algiricus Thomas & Truessart, 1930 = P. obesus Cretzschmar, 1828 (G. Shenbrot, pers. comm.).

Principal hosts. Mice of the genus Mus Linnaeus, 1758 , especially Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 ( Zemskaya, 1973) .

Distribution. North and Central Africa ( Hirst, 1925; Tipton, 1960), Europe and Siberia (except the northern latitudes), Yunnan Province of Southern China ( Huang et al., 2009). In Asiatic Russia, the species is known from Western Siberia and Transbaikalia (Davydova & Nikol’sky, 1986; Nikulina, 2004), but is a rare mite in Siberia (Davydova & Nikol’sky, 1986).

Remarks. L. algericus is the only species of the genus known to serve as a reservoir host for Yersinia pestis —the causative agent of the plague ( Zemskaya, 1973; Sludsky, 2014).

References

Bregetova, N. G. & Kolpakova, S. A. (1956) Gamasid mites (Parasitiformes, Gamasoidea) - parasites of small mouse-like rodents and residents of their nests in the Volga Delta. Parazitologicheskiy sbornik Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 16, 184 - 197. [in Russian]

Costa, M. (1961) Mites associated with rodents in Israel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 8, 3 - 70.

Hirst, S. (1925) Descriptions of new Acari, mainly parasitic on rodents. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 95, 49 - 69. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1925. tb 03342. x

Huang, L. - Q., Guo, X. - G., Wu, D. & Wand, Q. - H. (2009) Community structure and spatial distribution of gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Yunnan, China. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 52, 1328 - 1337.

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

Lange, A. B. (1958) Superfamily Gamasoidea. In: Beklemishev, V. N. (Ed.), Key to Arthropods Injuring Human Health. Medgiz, Moscow, pp. 195 - 217. [in Russian]

Masan, P. & Fenda, P. (2010) A Review of the Laelapid Mites Associated with Terrestrial Mammals in Slovakia, with a Key to the European Species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Dermanyssoidea). Institute of Zoology, Slovakian Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 187 pp.

Nikulina, N. A. (2004) A Catalogue of Parasitic Gamasina Mites of Mammals of Northern Eurasia (Russia). Aktsioner & Co, Saint-Petersburg, 170 pp. [in Russian]

Senotrusova, V. G. (1987) Gamasid mites - parasites of wild animals in Kazakhstan. Nauka, Alma-Ata, 224 pp. [in Russian]

Sludsky, A. A. (2014) The epizootology of the plague (a review of studies and hypotheses). Saratov, 1, 1 - 313. [in Russian]

Strandtmann, R. W. & Wharton, G. W. (1958) A Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites Parasitic on Vertebrates. University of Maryland, College Park, 330 pp.

Tipton, V. J. (1960) The genus Laelaps. With a review of the Laelapinae and a new subfamily Alphalaelaptinae (Acarina: Laelapidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 16, 233 - 356.

Zemskaya, A. A. (1973) Parasitic Gamasid Mites and Their Medical Importance. Meditsina Publishing House, Moscow, 168 pp. [in Russian]