Haemogamasus hodosi Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961

Haemogamasus hodosi Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961: 276, fig. 1–2.

Haemogamasus hodosi .— Allred, 1969: 109; Zemskaya, 1973: 119; Goncharova et al., 1991: 54.

Type locality. Russia, Zabaikal’sky Krai ( Transbaikalia), Borzya District, Kaylastuy settlement.

Syntypes. ZIN. The type specimens include two females and a single male.

Type host. Marmota sibirica, the Tarbagan marmot.

Host range. Haemogamasus hodosi has been collected from a range of small mammal species, including marmots, mice, chipmunks and voles (Goncharova et al., 1991), without a clear tendency to parasitise a particular host taxon.

Distribution. Northern Asia, including northeastern China (Goncharova et al., 1991). It has been collected from different regions of Southern Siberia, from the Altai Mts (Davydova & Nikol’sky, 1986) eastward to Transbaikalia (Goncharova et al., 1991).