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 mandshuricus Vitzthum, 1930 Haemogamasus mandshuricus Vitzthum, 1930 : 399 , figs 1–4. Haemogamasus bregetovae Mrciak, 1958 : 72 , figs 1, 2. Haemogamasus bregetovae .— Haitlinger, 1988 : 647 , figs 22–24. Haemogamasus mandshuricus .— Keegan, 1951 : 218 , fig. 44; Bregetova, 1955 : 273 , 280, figs 519–523; Bregetova, 1956a : 146 , 152, figs 304–307; Bregetova, 1956b : 1655 ; Lange, 1958 : 209 , pl. LXXV, Z; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958 : 134 ; Davydova, 1966 : 145 ; Allred, 1969 : 110 ; Zemskaya, 1973 : 109 ; Nikulina, 1987 : 224 , 225, fig. 116 (10, 15); Senotrusova, 1987 : 46 , fig. 21; Goncharova et al ., 1991 : 56 ; Mašán & Fend’a, 2010: 91, figs 63, 69, 72, 93–95; Fyodorova & Kharadov, 2012 : 276 , 277. Haemogamasus mandshuricus sylvaticus Bregetova, 1949 : 176 , figs 13–15 (partim). Type locality. Northern China (without exact locality). Type specimens. The Vitzthum collection is kept in Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates München ( Germany ). Type host. Roborowski’s hamster, Phodopus roborowskii = Phodopus bedfordiae and Dipus sowerbyi . Host range. This species occurs with multiple hosts including numerous rodent taxa of the genera Marmota , Ochotona , Spermophilus , Microtus , Cricetulus ( Goncharova & Buyakova 1960 ) . Distribution. Northern and Central Palaearctic. This species is known from Eastern Europe (as Haemogamasus bregetovae Mrciak ; see Mašán & Fend’a, 2010), Caucasus ( Lopatina et al ., 1991 ), and the Liaoning Province of China ( Li, 1991 ). According to distributional data collected by Nikulina (2004) , this mite is almost ubiquitous in Asiatic Russia , including the extreme north latitudes (Wrangel Island, lower course of the Kolhyma River). Remarks. Sludsky (2014) listed Hg . mandschuricus among mite species able to harbour Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the plague