Schizocarpus insignis Fain and Lukoschus, 1985

Bochkov, Andre V. & Saveljev, Alexander P., 2012, Fur mites of the genus Schizocarpus Trouessart (Acari: Chirodiscidae) from the Eurasian beaver Castor fiber tuvinicus Lavrov (Rodentia: Castoridae) in the Azas River (Tuva Republic, Russia), Zootaxa 3410, pp. 1-18 : 16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.212597
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3507859
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scientific name	Schizocarpus insignis Fain and Lukoschus, 1985
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16. Schizocarpus insignis Fain and Lukoschus, 1985

Schizocarpus insignis Fain and Lukoschus, 1985: 65 , figs. 78, 79; Bochkov et al. 2012: 58 View Cited Treatment

Material examined. 6 males ( ZISP AVB-2012-0203-029, #1-6 ) ex Castor fiber tuvinicus [beaver #1, sample 6], RUSSIA: Tuva, Todzhinskii District , upstream water of Azas River , 52º25’N, 96º38’E, 8 October 2011, coll. A.P. Saveljev; GoogleMaps 4 males (ZISP AVB-2012-0203-030, #1-4 ), beaver #2, sample 5, same locality, 9 October 2011, coll. A.P. Saveljev; GoogleMaps 1 male (ZISP AVB-2012-0203-031 ), beaver #4, sample 1, downstream of Azas River , 52º32’N, 97º15’E, 16 October 2011, coll. A.P. Saveljev. GoogleMaps

Microhabitat. Posterior dorsum, one mite from head dorsally.

Distribution. Recorded from several hosts: C. fiber (undetermined subspecies) from an unknown locality in Europe, C. f. albicus from Germany (Elba River), C. f. birulai from Mongolia (Bulgan-gol River) ( Fain & Lukoschus 1985), C. f. belorussicus from Poland (Suwałki) ( Bochkov et al. 2012), and C. f. tuvinicus from Tuva (Azas River) (present paper).