An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Laelapidae s. str. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina) Author Vinarski, Maxim V. Author Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P. text Zootaxa 2016 4111 3 223 245 journal article 39057 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.3.2 67800801-58b9-4df7-8105-279a89c19e0d 1175-5326 256941 27BC088C-D7E2-45B8-893F-1FEC6C8FBB1B 3. Laelaps algericus Hirst, 1925 Laelaps algericus Hirst, 1925 : 57 , fig. 6. Laelaps algericus . — Lange, 1955 : 328 , figs 672–674; Bregetova, 1956: 116, fig. 191; Bregetova & Kolpakova, 1956 : 187 ; Lange, 1958 : 204 , pl. LXXII, G; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958 : 59 ; Tipton, 1960 : 266 , figs 24b, 27b, 28f, 32c; Costa, 1961 : 37 , figs 60–65; Zemskaya, 1973 : 142 ; Senotrusova, 1987 : 162 , fig. 80; Mašán & Fenďa, 2010 : 16 , 27, figs 4, 9. Type locality. Algeria , Tougourt. Type host. Mus algericus (Thomas, 1902) . The identity of the binomen “ Mus algericus ” is obscure. Possibly, the type specimens of L . algericus were collected from Psammomys algiricus Thomas & Truessart, 1930 = P . obesus Cretzschmar, 1828 (G. Shenbrot, pers. comm.). Principal hosts. Mice of the genus Mus Linnaeus, 1758 , especially Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 ( Zemskaya, 1973 ) . Distribution. North and Central Africa ( Hirst, 1925 ; Tipton, 1960 ), Europe and Siberia (except the northern latitudes), Yunnan Province of Southern China ( Huang et al ., 2009 ). In Asiatic Russia , the species is known from Western Siberia and Transbaikalia (Davydova & Nikol’sky, 1986; Nikulina, 2004 ), but is a rare mite in Siberia (Davydova & Nikol’sky, 1986). Remarks. L . algericus is the only species of the genus known to serve as a reservoir host for Yersinia pestis —the causative agent of the plague ( Zemskaya, 1973 ; Sludsky, 2014 ).