Androlaelaps Berlese, 1903

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 : 232-233

Genus Androlaelaps Berlese, 1903

Haemolaelaps Berlese, 1910 (partim) Atricholaelaps Ewing, 1929 (partim) Eubrachylaelaps Ewing, 1929

Ischnolaelaps Fonseca, 1936 (partim) Zygolaelaps Tipton, 1957

Gromphadorholaelaps Till, 1969 Gnatholaelaps Till, 1972

Type species. Androlaelaps hermaphrodita Berlese, 1887 .

Remarks. Mites of this cosmopolitan genus are ecological opportunists associated with a wide range of species hosts (insects, reptiles, birds, rodents) as well as with their nests. Not all Androlaelaps mites are considered as closely associated with small mammals. For example, A. karawajewi Berlese, 1903 recorded from Western Siberia is a myrmecophilous mite inhabiting ant nests ( Davydova, 1977). It was excluded from the check-list below.

The genus Androlaelaps has sometimes been placed into the stem subfamily Hypoaspidinae Vitzthum, 1941 ( Tipton, 1960; Casanueva, 1993). Here we follow Lindquist et al. (2009) and classify it as a member of the nominate subfamily.

The long established synonymy between the genera Androlaelaps and Haemolaelaps supported by many authors ( Till, 1963; Evans & Till, 1966; Senotrusova, 1987; Goncharova et al. 1991) has been rejected recently by Shaw (2014) who also rediagnosed Haemolaelaps . Bregetova (1977b) stated there are 10 species of Androlaelaps in the ex-USSR fauna; seven have been recorded from Asiatic Russia, as follows.