Hirstionyssus pavlovskyi Zemskaya, 1959

Vinarski, Maxim V. & Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P., 2020, An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Hirstionyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina), Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 102-118 : 110

Hirstionyssus pavlovskyi Zemskaya, 1959

Hirstionyssus pavlovskyii Zemskaya 1959: 486 , figs 1–3.

Echinonyssus pavlovskyi — Tenorio 1984: 276.

Hirstionyssus pavlovskyi — Koroleva 1977: 138, figs 4 (5), 6 (6); Nikulina 1987: 233, 234; Goncharova et al. 1991: 75.

Type locality: Russia, Primorye region , upper courses of the Iman River .

Type series: Unknown (possibly in EMAMS). ZIN collection has two specimens (females; accession numbers 6410 and 6411) of H. pavlovskyi collected and identified by Zemskaya in 1957. The sampling site and host ( Eutamias sibiricus ) coincide with data provided in the original description ( Zemskaya 1959). These two females may originate from the type series of H. pavlovskyi .

Type hosts: Eutamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769) , the Siberian chipmunk, and Pteromys volans (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Host range: Goncharova et al. (1991) consider Eutamias sibiricus as the principal and virtually exclusive mammal host of this mite. However, according to other authors, various species of voles ( Clethrionomys , Microtus ), mice, shrews, squirrels and other Micromammalia may serve as the auxiliary hosts for H. pavlovskyi ( Yudin et al. 1976; Nikulina 2004).

Distribution: H. pavlovskyi is endemic to Asiatic Russia. It is distributed in Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, including the extreme northeast of Asia ( Yudin et al. 1976; Goncharova et al. 1991; Nikulina 2004).

Notes: Hirstionyssus pavlovskyi Mrciak, 1974 is a junior homonym of H. pavlovskyi Zemskaja, 1959 . Koyumdzhieva (1978) introduced Hirstionyssus nitedula as a replacement name for the former.