Eulaelaps stabularis (C.L. Koch, 1839)

Gamasus stabularis Koch, 1839: 1 .

Eulaelaps arcualis .— Trägårdh, 1912: 577, figs 90–93.

Eulaelaps oudemansi Turk, 1945: 137 (nom. nov. for Eulaelaps stabularis sensu Oudemans, 1913).

Eulaelaps oudemansi .— Uchikawa & Rack, 1979: 166, figs 1–8B; Domrow, 1988: 847, figs 80–86.

Eulaelaps oribatoides .— Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 128.

Eulaelaps stabularis .— Hirst, 1914: 121; Vitzthum, 1930: 412; Turk, 1945: 135, figs 6–13; Willmann, 1952: 401; Bregetova, 1955: 321, figs 652, 653, 660–662; Bregetova, 1956a: 100, fig. 173, 175, 177; Lange, 1958: 201, pl. LXXI, A; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 127, fig. 59; Costa, 1961: 48, figs 80–81; Piryanik, 1962: 84; Allred & Beck, 1966: 11, figs 121, 203, 246, 410, 553; Evans & Till, 1966: 260, fig. 61; Allred, 1969: 108, fig. A-4; Garrett & Allred, 1971: 293; Karg 1971: 188, figs 201b, 203e; Wen, 1976: 348, figs 5, 15, 24, 30; Uchikawa & Rack, 1979: 165, figs 1–8A; Nikulina, 1987: 229; Senotrusova, 1987: 146, fig. 72; Haitlinger, 1988: 651, figs 28, 29; Goncharova et al., 1991: 25; Karg, 1993: 165; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 109, figs 107, 108, 110–112.

Hypoaspis stabularis .— Oudemans, 1913: 189, text figs 235–256, pl. VI, figs 6–11.

Laelaps oribatoides Michael, 1892: 315, pl. XXXII, figs 12–15.

Laelaps pedalis Banks, 1909: 136 .

Laelaps propheticus Banks, 1909: 136 .

Type locality. Germany (without exact locality).

Type specimens. Type status and location unknown.

Type host. None. Koch (1839: 1–2) described Gamasus stabularis as a free-living mite living in stables, kennels and similar habitats.

Host range. The list of mammals species parasitised by this mite is very wide. It includes more than 40 host taxa (Allred, 1969; Whitaker & Wilson, 1974; Whitaker et al., 2007). No principal host species can be identified for this opportunistic mite. Turk (1945: 135) characterised it as “the commonnest species of acari to be found in the nests and on the bodies of small rodents and insectivores”. Goncharova et al. (1991) state that Eu. stabularis is much more abundant in mammals’ nests than on their bodies.

Distribution. Almost cosmopolitan. In Asiatic Russia it is distributed throughout the region; the northern border of its distribution in Siberia coincides with the boundary of the forest-tundra zone (Goncharova et al., 1991). Eulaelaps stabularis was re-described by Uchikawa & Rack (1979).