Haemogamasus timofejevi Buyakova & Goncharova 1962

• Main Authors: Vinarski, Maxim V., Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Mesostigmata; Laelapidae; Haemogamasus; Haemogamasus timofejevi; Goncharova; Nikulina; Mite; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6023649; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6023649

Haemogamasus timofejevi Buyakova & Goncharova, 1962 Haemogamasus timofejevi Buyakova & Goncharova 1962: 760, figs 1–3. Haemogamasus timofejevi.— Zemskaya, 1973: 119; Nikulina, 1987: 224, fig. 116 (7, 14); Goncharova et al., 1991: 45. Type locality. Russia, Eastern Siberia, Chita City. Syntypes. ZIN. Type host. Mus musculus (L., 1758). Host range. Similarly to Hg. pontiger, this species is a predatory mite with a tendency towards hematophagy (Goncharova et al., 1991). It may live in vegetable stores, cellars and other similar locations inhabited by synanthropic rodents. The occurrence of Hg. timofejevi on wild rodents is also known (Goncharova et al., 1991). Distribution. Siberia (Western and Eastern), Transbaikalia, northern China (Goncharova et al., 1991). Published as part of Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2017, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 4273 (1) on page 12, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4273.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/818303