Haemogamasus citelli Bregetova

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 : 6

Haemogamasus citelli Bregetova & Nel’zina, 1952

Haemogamasus citelli Bregetova & Nel’zina, 1952: 72, figs 1, 2.

Haemogamasus citelli .— Bregetova, 1955: 275, 281, figs 526–528, 548–550; Bregetova, 1956a: 148, 153, figs 311–313, 332; Lange, 1958: 209, pl. LXXV, K; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 131; Allred, 1969: 109, fig. R-17B; Zemskaya, 1973: 106; Bregetova, 1977: 571, fig. 454 (1); Senotrusova, 1987: 51, fig. 23; Fyodorova & Kharadov, 2012: 276, 277. Haemogamasus kitanoi .—Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 91 (partim).

Type locality. Russia, Astrakhan’, Volgograd and Rostov regions (all situated in south of European Russia ).

Syntypes. ZIN (the holotype was not designated).

Type host. Spermophilus pygmaeus (Pallas, 1778) , the little ground squirrel (little souslik).

Principal hosts. Ground squirrels (sousliks) of different species ( Nikulina, 2004). Occasionally, it may be found on other species of rodents such as the water vole and hamsters ( Nikulina, 2004). Mitchell (1977) reported Hg. citelli in Nepal parasitising the house mouse (the Himalayan subspecies) and the Himalayan rat, Rattus eha (Wroughton, 1849) .

Distribution. Southern parts of European and Asiatic Russia; Central Asia ( Nepal), Far East ( Mitchell, 1977; Goncharova et al., 1991; Nikulina, 2004). Several records of this species in the southern part of Western Siberia, in Tuva and Buryatia outline its known distribution in the Asiatic Russia ( Nikulina, 2004).

Remarks. Mašán & Fend’a (2010: 91) proposed a new synonymy between Hg. citelli and Hg. kitanoi Asanuma, 1948 . However, the authors did not provide any arguments in favour of their opinion.