Haemogamasus hirsutosimilis Willmann, 1952

Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2017, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), Zootaxa 4273 (1), pp. 1-18 : 7

Haemogamasus hirsutosimilis Willmann, 1952

Haemogamasus hirsutosimilis Willmann, 1952: 403 , figs 6–8.

Haemogamasus hirsutosimilis .— Bregetova, 1955: 270, 278, 280, figs 503, 507–509, 541–543; Bregetova, 1956a: 141, 152, figs 294–296, 326–328; Lange, 1958: 208, pl. LXXV (I), fig, 52, A; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 132; Kozlowski, 1960: 414, fig. 5; Piryanik, 1962: 107; Evans & Till, 1966: 246, fig. 55; Allred, 1969: 109, fig. J-12; Karg 1971: 189, fig. 201e; Zemskaya, 1973: 118; Haitlinger, 1988: 641, fig. 7; Lundquist, 1990: 332, figs 2, F, 3, F; Karg, 1993: 167; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 79.

Type locality. Poland (Silesia) and Germany (vicinity of Helmstedt ).

Type specimens. Type status and location unknown.

Type hosts. Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771) , the striped field mouse, and A. flavicollis (Melchior, 1834) , the yellow-necked mouse.

Principal hosts. Mice of the genus Apodemus ( Willmann, 1952; Haitlinger, 1988; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010). Occasionally may parasitise different species of voles ( Nikulina, 2004).

Distribution. Europe. A record of Hg. hirsutosimilis from the steppe zone of Western Siberia (Davydova & Nikol’sky, 1986) remains the only published finding of this species in Asiatic Russia. Unfortunately, the authors gave no information about the exact locality of Hg. hirsutosimilis in Siberia or its mammal host there.