Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma 1951

Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951 Haemogamasus kusumotoi Asanuma, 1951b: 18, fig. d. Haemogamasus kusumotoi.— Bregetova, 1956a: 142; Bregetova, 1956b: 1652; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 133; Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961: 278, fig. 3 (1–6); Allred, 1969: 110, fig. M-14; Garrett & Allred, 1971: 294; Nikulina, 1987: 223, fig. 116 (2, 19); Goncharova et al., 1991: 54. Type locality. China, northwestern Manchuria. Type specimens. According to Strandtmann & Wharton (1958), the type specimen was in the collection of K. Asanuma; its current location is unknown. Type host. Marmota sibirica. Principal hosts. In Transbaikalia, Hg. kusumotoi is known as a common inhabitant of nests of hamsters – Cricetulus barabensis and Phodopus sungorus (Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961; Goncharova et al., 1991). In Manchuria, the species was collected from several species of rodents of the genera Apodemus, Mus, Rattus, Tscherskia and some others (Bregetova, 1956b). Distribution. Central Asia, Turkey (Allred, 1969; Garrett & Allred, 1971; Goncharova et al., 1991). In Asiatic Russia, Hg. kusumotoi has been recorded from Transbaikalia and Republic of Buryatia (Goncharova et al., 1991; Nikulina, 2004).Published as part of 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), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 4273 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/81830