An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Haemogamasidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina) Author Vinarski, Maxim V. Author Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P. text Zootaxa 2017 4273 1 1 18 journal article 28695 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.1.1 bc3175fc-8f7f-4b44-9377-d1fd2dfeba84 1175-5326 818303 FED562EC-7139-485D-BB6F-6D18769F47C3 Haemogamasus kitanoi Asanuma, 1948 Haemogamasus kitanoi Asanuma, 1948 : 173 , fig. 3 (not seen, quoted after Keegan, 1951 ). Haemogamasus kitanoi .— Asanuma, 1951a : 6 ; Keegan, 1951 : 227 ; Bregetova, 1955 : 276 , figs 529–532; Bregetova, 1956a : 148 , figs 314–317; Lange, 1958 : 209 , pl. LXXV, E, L; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958 : 133 ; Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961 : 279 , fig. 3 (7–8); Allred, 1969 : 110 ; Senotrusova, 1972 : 247 , figs 1, 2; Zemskaya, 1973 : 119 ; Nikulina, 1987 : 223 , fig. 116 (9, 13); Senotrusova, 1987 : 54 , figs 24–26; Goncharova et al ., 1991 : 50 ; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 91 (partim); Fyodorova & Kharadov, 2012 : 277 . Haemogamasus kitanoi kitanoi .— Davydova, 1966 : 144 . Haemogamasus kitanoi riparius Davydova, 1966 : 144 , fig. 4. Haemogamasus kitanoi silvaticus Davydova, 1966 : 144 , fig. 4. Haemogamasus polychaeta Bregetova, 1949 : 182 , figs 19, 20. Type locality. China , northwestern Manchuria. Type specimens. According to Strandtmann & Wharton (1958) , the type specimen was in the collection of K. Asanuma, but its current location is unknown. Type host. Marmota sibirica . Host range. The species exploits a wide spectrum of hosts, including different species of voles, hamsters, and pikas ( Goncharova & Buyakova, 1961 ; Senotrusova, 1972 , 1973 ). Distribution. Northern and Central Asia, Pakistan , possibly Taiwan ( Dusbabek, 1966 ; Allred, 1969 ; Nikulina, 2004 ). In Asiatic Russia , Hg . kitanoi has been recorded from various parts of southern Siberia, also from Yakutia and Sakhalin Island ( Davydova, 1966 ; Nikulina, 2004 ). Remarks. Re-descriptions of Hg . kitanoi on the basis of an expanded set of morphological characters were published by Asanuma (1951a) and Senotrusova (1972) . Senotrusova (1973) described the life cycle and other peculiarities of biology of this mite. Davydova (1966) distinguished three subspecies of Hg . kitanoi (including one that lives in nests of the European sand martin, Riparia riparia ). No subsequent acarologist in Russia has accepted this division ( Senotrusova, 1972 , 1987 ; Nikulina, 1987 ; Goncharova et al ., 1991 ). Sludsky (2014) listed Hg . kitanoi among mite species able to harbour Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the plague