Myonyssus Tiraboschi, 1904

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 : 237

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.3.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5619450
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scientific name	Myonyssus Tiraboschi, 1904
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Genus Myonyssus Tiraboschi, 1904

Tetragonyssus Ewing, 1924 (partim)

Type species. Myonyssus decumani Tiraboschi, 1904 .

Remarks. The genus is distributed in Europe, Northern and Central Asia, North America and Australasia ( Strandtmann & Garrett, 1970; Mašán & Fenďa, 2010). Strandtmann & Garrett (1970) included seven species within the genus Myonyssus , and considered these mites rare, “encountered occasionally in the fur of rodents and pikas.”.