Laelaps algericus Hirst 1925

• Main Authors: Vinarski, Maxim V., Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P.
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• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Mesostigmata; Ascidae; Laelaps; Laelaps algericus; Mite; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5619392; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A76187C2BE64E67AFFC6FF31ECC8FCE5

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). Published as part of 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), pp. 223-245 in Zootaxa 4111 (3) on page 227, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4111.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256941