Androlaelaps geomys (Strandtmann)

Howell, Lindsey, Jelden, Katelyn, Rácz, Elizabeth, Gardner, Scott L. & Gettinger, Donald, 2016, Arthropods infesting small mammals (Insectivora and Rodentia) near Cedar Point Biological Station in southwestern Nebraska, Insecta Mundi 2016 (478), pp. 1-16 : 9-10

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scientific name	Androlaelaps geomys (Strandtmann)
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Type host: Geomys sp. from Brooks Co., Georgia.

Deposition, host records, and locality: HWML 92014, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 101702, 101704, 101705, and 101708, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92022, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92032, 101737, 101746, and 101750, G. lutescens / Ackley 2013; HWML 92041, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92048, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 101786, 101787, 101788, 101790, and 92051, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013.

Remarks: Androlaelaps geomys is a pleioxenous ectoparasite reported exclusively from fossorial rodents ( Geomyidae ). It appears to infest all geomyid species, including Thomomys , Geomys , and Cratogeomys ( Miller and Ward 1960; Rust 1973; Whitaker et al. 2007; Wilkins and Houck 2001). This association was first recorded in Nebraska by Rapp (1962) from G. lutescens , near Chadron, in Dawes County. The mite is easily distinguished from other Androlaelaps infesting small mammals by the gnathosome with a distinct labial-brush.

References

Miller, R. S., and R. A. Ward. 1960. Ectoparasites of pocket gophers from Colorado. American Midland Naturalist 64: 382 - 391.

Rapp, W. F., Jr. 1962. Distributional notes on parasitic mites. Acarologia 4: 31 - 33.

Rust, R. W. 1973. The acarinium of the pocket gopher Thomomys bottae (Rodentia: Geomyidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 10: 169 - 175.

Whitaker, J. O., Jr., B. L. Walters, L. K. Castor, C. M. Ritzi, and N. Wilson. 2007. Host and distribution lists of mites (Acari), parasitic and phoretic, in the hair or on the skin of North American wild mammals north of Mexico: records since 1974. Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska; Lincoln, NE. 173 p.

Wilkins S. K., and M. A. Houck. 2001. Parasitic mites of pocket gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) from Texas, USA. International Journal of Acarology 27: 1 - 11.