Haemogamasus nidi Michael, 1892

Haemogamasus nidi Michael, 1892: 314, pl. XXXII, figs 6–7.

Euhaemogamasus ambulans .— Keegan, 1951: 228, fig. 41, 46 (partim).

Euhaemogamasus nidi .— Bregetova, 1949: 168.

Euhaemogamasus onychomydis Ewing, 1933: 4, pl. 1, fig. 3.

Euhaemogamasus oregonensis Ewing, 1933: 5, pl. 2, fig. 1.

Euhaemogamasus sciuropteri Keegan 1946: 72, figs 8, 9.

Haemogamasus michaeli Oudemans 1903: 87, pl. VI, figs 33–39.

Haemogamasus michaeli .— Oudemans, 1913: 155, textfigs 108–140.

Haemogamasus nidi .— Oudemans 1903: 89; Hirst, 1914: 121, pl. XVI, fig. 8; Bregetova, 1955: 264, 286, figs 396, 404, 489, 490, 565–567; Bregetova, 1956a: 134, 155, figs 268–271, 344–347; Lange, 1958: 210, fig. 51, Zh; Mrciak, 1958: 71; Kozlowski, 1960: 409, fig. 1 (partim); Piryanik, 1962: 105; Evans & Till, 1966: 254, fig. 59; Allred, 1969: 110; Redington, 1970: 665; Karg 1971: 188, fig. 203d; Zemskaya, 1973: 100, fig. 15; Evans & Till, 1979: 239, fig. 33, a–j; Senotrusova, 1987: 37, fig. 16; Haitlinger, 1988: 648, figs 25–27; Lundquist, 1990: 332, figs 2, A, 3, A, 4; Goncharova et al., 1991: 47; Karg, 1993: 166; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 94, figs 59, 70, 78, 96–98; Fyodorova & Kharadov, 2012: 276, 277.

Haemogamasus reidi Ewing 1925: 140 .

Haemogamasus reidi .— Vitzthum, 1930: 404; Redington, 1970: 643, figs 1–37; Williams et al., 1978: 255, figs 7 a–n.

Haemogamasus twitchelli Ewing 1925: 142 .

Type locality. England (without exact locality).

Holotype. Natural History Museum, London (fide Lundquist & Edler, 1979).

Type host. The common mole, Talpa europaea (L., 1758), in nests.

Host range. Haemogamasus nidi has a very wide spectrum of hosts, including numerous species of rodents and insectivores (Bregetova, 1956a; Zemskaya, 1973; Whitaker & Wilson, 1974; Goncharova et al., 1991; Whitaker et al., 2007). May feed also on small birds (sparrows) and bats (Haitlinger, 1988).

Distribution. Holarctic. In all areas of Asiatic Russia.

Remarks. Sludsky (2014) listed Hg. nidi among mite species able to harbour Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the plague