Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948

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10. Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948

Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948: 74 .

Laelaps micromydis . — Lange, 1948: 84, figs I D, II E, III B; Lange, 1955: 333, figs 685, 702; Bregetova, 1956: 110, 116, figs 209, 216, 217; Goncharova, 1956: 202; Vysotskaya & Bregetova, 1957: 14; Lange, 1958: 206, pl. LXXII, P; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 65; Tipton, 1960: 276; Senotrusova, 1987: 168, fig. 83; Nikulina, 1987: 231, fig. 118, 1; Goncharova et al., 1991: 34; Mašán & Fenďa, 2010: 44, fig. 13.

Laelaps arvicolae Oudemans, 1916: 310 (partim) [fide Zakhvatkin, 1948].

Type locality. Russia, vicinities of Moscow ( Lange, 1948). Type host. Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) .

Principal hosts. The Eurasian harvest mouse, Micromys minutus (according to Lange, 1948; Zemskaya, 1973).

Distribution. Europe and Northern Asia (except of the northern latitudes). In Asiatic Russia, the species has been recorded from the southern regions of Siberia as well as from the Amur River basin in the Russian Far East ( Nikulina, 1987, 2004).