An annotated catalogue of the gamasid mites associated with small mammals in Asiatic Russia. The family Hirstionyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina) Author Vinarski, Maxim V. 0000-0002-7644-4164 Saint-Petersburg State University, 7 / 9 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, 199034 & Omsk State University, 28 Adrianova Str., Omsk, Russian Federation, 644077. radix. vinarski @ gmail. com. radix. vinarski @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7644 - 4164 radix.vinarski@gmail.com Author Korallo-Vinarskaya, Natalia P. Laboratory of Arthropod-Borne Viral Infections, Omsk Research Institute of Natural Foci Infections, 7 Mira Str. Omsk, Russian Federation, 644080 & Omsk State Pedagogical University, 14 Tukhachevskogo Emb., Omsk, Russian Federation, 644099 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-08-25 4838 1 102 118 journal article 8792 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.5 91546d32-ac3d-45d1-834f-862152266e27 1175-5326 4403711 BCEF3C8B-7F63-442E-BBAF-10FC4769CA9D Hirstionyssus confucianus (Hirst, 1921) Liponyssus berlesei Hirst, 1921a: 362 , figs 8–9. Liponyssus confucianus Hirst 1921b: 789 , nom. nov. pro Liponyssus berlesei Hirst, 1921 non Canestrini, 1888. Hirstionyssus confucianus — Fonseca 1948: 297 ; Bregetova 1956: 174 , 187, figs 391, 392, 455; Lange 1958: 215 , pl. LXXVIII (Г); Koroleva 1977: 135 , figs 1 (1), 5(8); Nikulina 1987: 233 , 234; Goncharova et al . 1991: 66 . Echinonyssus confucianus — Tenorio 1984: 265 . Tenorio 1985: 5 , figs 3–5. Type locality : North China , “Yu-Lin-Fu, Shansi” . Type series: NHMUK . The type secies includes the lectotype and 12 paralectotypes ( 7 females , 5 deutonymphs). The lectotype was designated by Tenorio (1984 ; for more details see Tenorio 1985 ). Type host : Stated as “ Myospalax scansus ” = Eospalax cansus (Lyon 1907) , the Gansu zokor (see Zhou & Zhou 2008 for details) . Host range : The species of the genus Myospalax (zokors) are the principal hosts of this mite ( Tenorio 1985 ). In Siberia, H . confucianus is associated with the Daurian zokor, Myospalax aspalax Pallas, 1776 ( Goncharova et al . 1991 ); occasional recordings of this parasite from the narrow-headed vole ( M . gregalis ), marmots, and the Siberian jerboa, Allactaga sibirica Foster, 1778 , are known ( Nikulina 2004 ). Distribution : Far East. Found in some areas of Southern Siberia ( Irkutsk Region , Transbaikalia) [ Goncharova et al . 1991 ; Nikulina 2004 ].