Laelaps nuttalli Hirst, 1915

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 : 230

12. Laelaps nuttalli Hirst, 1915

Laelaps nuttalli Hirst, 1915: 183 , figs 1, 2.

Laelaps nuttalli . — Bregetova, 1953: 312; Lange, 1955: 328, figs 675, 676; Bregetova, 1956: 110, 116, figs 192, 196; Lange, 1958: 204, pl. LXXIII, Е; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 66, figs 11, 29; Tipton, 1960: 278, figs 24a, 26i, 28a, 32m, 41b, 41 a, b; Tipton et al., 1966: 36; Tipton & Herrin, 1976: 157, figs 66–72; Domrow, 1988: 839, figs 46, 47; Nikulina, 1987: 230, 231, fig. 117, 3; Senotrusova, 1987: 173; Goncharova et al., 1991: 37.

Echinolaelaps caraco Lange, 1947 (appeared in an unpublished PhD thesis and, thus, unavailable)

Haemolaelaps nuttalli . — Turk, 1950: 67.

Laelaps hawaiiensis Ewing, 1924: 8 , fig. 1 a [fide Bregetova, 1956; Tipton et al., 1966]

Liponyssus bermudaensis Ewing, 1920: 290 , textfig. 8.

Tetragonyssus bermudaensis Ewing, 1923: 11 .

Type locality. Ceylon, Colombo.

Type hosts. Mus rattus and Mus norvegicus (both domestic species are classified within Rattus now).

Principal hosts. Domestic rats of the genus Rattus ( Herrin & Tipton, 1976) .

Distribution. L. nuttalli is a cosmopolitan species tightly associated with its principal hosts, rats of the genus Rattus . It is found wherever domestic Rattus species occur ( Herrin & Tipton, 1976). However, Mašán & Fenďa (2010) believe that L. nuttalli has not been found on the European continent until recently and mention L. dolomydis Mrciak, 1974 , which closely resembles L. nuttalli , as a distinct species in the European fauna. In Asiatic Russia, the species has been recorded from the southern parts of the Far East and Eastern Siberia, including Yakutia ( Nikulina, 1987, 2004; Goncharova et al., 1991).