Haemogamasus zachvatkini Bregetova, 1955

Haemogamasus zachvatkini Bregetova, 1955: 265, 282, figs 491, 492, 558–560.

Haemogamasus altaicus .— Davydova, 1966: 142, figs 1, 2.

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

Haemogamasus zachvatkini .— Bregetova, 1956a: 136, 154, figs 276, 299, 340–342; Bregetova, 1956b: 1648, figs 1, 2; Lange, 1958: 210, pl. LXXV, G; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 136; Allred, 1969: 111, fig. J; Zemskaya, 1973: 119; Bregetova, 1977: 570, figs 453 (4); Senotrusova, 1987: 41, fig. 18, 19; Haitlinger, 1988: 646, figs 16, 17; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 107.

Haemogamasus zachvatkini altaica .— Zemskaya, 1973: 119.

Haemogamasus zachvatkini altaicus Zemskaya & Piontkovskaya 1957: 39, fig. 3 (4–6).

Type locality. Georgia, the central part of the Main Caucasian Ridge, alpine meadows in vicinity of Kobi village (Bregetova, 1956b).

Syntypes. ZIN (about 50 individuals).

Type host. The long clawed mole vole, Prometheomys schaposchnikowi Satunin, 1901 .

Host range. Prometheomys schaposchnikowi (Bregetova, 1956a), in Eastern Kazakhstan and adjacent areas – the Altai, or Siberian, zokor, Myospalax myospalax (Laxmann, 1773).

Distribution. Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan (Senotrusova, 1987; Cicek et al., 2008). The populations of this species from Asia (Altai Mts.) were described as a separate subspecies, Haemogamasus zachvatkini altaicus Zemskaya & Piontkovskaya, 1957 . It has not been recorded from other regions of Northern Asia.

Remarks. For the correct publication date of this binominal name see remark for Hg. ivanovi above.