Haemogamasus serdjukovae (Bregetova, 1949)

Euhaemogamasus serdjukovae Bregetova, 1949: 172, figs 8–9.

Haemogamasus nidi .— Kozlowski, 1960: 409, fig. 1 (partim).

Haemogamasus mandshuricus sylvaticus Bregetova, 1949: 176, figs 13–15 (partim).

Haemogamasus serdjukovae .— Bregetova, 1955: 266, 287, figs 493–497, 516, 568–570; Bregetova, 1956a: 138, 157, figs 277– 283, 349–350; Lange, 1958: 210, pl. LXXV, D; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 136; Allred, 1969: 111; Zemskaya, 1973: 113; Nikulina, 1987: 224, 225, figs 116 (6, 16); Goncharova et al., 1991: 49.

Type locality. The syntypes were collected in several localities situated in Eastern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Territory) and the Russian Far East ( Suputinsky Nature Reserve, Primorye).

Syntypes: ZIN. The holotype was not designated.

Type hosts. Eutamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769), Myodes (= Evotomys) sp., Apodemus speciosus (Temminck, 1844) .

Principal host. Goncharova et al. (1991) consider the Siberian chipmunk, Eutamias sibiricus, as the primary host for Hg. serdjukovae . Occasionally, it may be found on other species of rodents (mice, voles).

Distribution. Haemogamasus serdjukovae is widely distributed in the northeastern Palaearctic. All findings within the ex-USSR boundaries were made in localities situated eastward from the Ural Mts. (Nikulina, 2004). It is also known from the Far East, including Korea and China (Kim et al., 1987; Fang et al., 2015). Recently, Harris et al. (2009) reported this Asiatic species from the Mazurian Forest of Poland as an abundant parasite of Myodes glareolus (based on misidentification?). According to references compiled by Nikulina (2004), Hg. serdjukovae inhabits all of Siberia (excluding the northern part of Western Siberia) and the Russian Far East.

Remarks. Kozlowski (1960) considered Hg. serdjukovae to be identical with Hg. nidi . Kim et al. (1987) redescribed Hg. serdjukovae .