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Androlaelaps geomys

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Androlaelaps geomys (Strandtmann)

Type host: Geomys sp. from Brooks Co., Georgia.

Deposition, host records, and locality: HWML 92014, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 101702, 101704, 101705, and 101708, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92022, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92032, 101737, 101746, and 101750, G. lutescens / Ackley 2013; HWML 92041, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 92048, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013; HWML 101786, 101787, 101788, 101790, and 92051, G. lutescens /Ackley 2013.

Remarks: Androlaelaps geomys is a pleioxenous ectoparasite reported exclusively from fossorial rodents (Geomyidae). It appears to infest all geomyid species, including Thomomys, Geomys, and Cratogeomys (Miller and Ward 1960; Rust 1973; Whitaker et al. 2007; Wilkins and Houck 2001). This association was first recorded in Nebraska by Rapp (1962) from G. lutescens, near Chadron, in Dawes County. The mite is easily distinguished from other Androlaelaps infesting small mammals by the gnathosome with a distinct labial-brush.

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Published as part of Howell, Lindsey, Jelden, Katelyn, Rácz, Elizabeth, Gardner, Scott L. & Gettinger, Donald, 2016, Arthropods infesting small mammals (Insectivora and Rodentia) near Cedar Point Biological Station in southwestern Nebraska, pp. 1-16 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (478) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170591

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Biodiversity

Family
Laelapidae
Genus
Androlaelaps
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Strandtmann
Species
geomys
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Miller, R. S., and R. A. Ward. 1960. Ectoparasites of pocket gophers from Colorado. American Midland Naturalist 64: 382 - 391.
  • Rust, R. W. 1973. The acarinium of the pocket gopher Thomomys bottae (Rodentia: Geomyidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 10: 169 - 175.
  • Whitaker, J. O., Jr., B. L. Walters, L. K. Castor, C. M. Ritzi, and N. Wilson. 2007. Host and distribution lists of mites (Acari), parasitic and phoretic, in the hair or on the skin of North American wild mammals north of Mexico: records since 1974. Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska; Lincoln, NE. 173 p.
  • Wilkins S. K., and M. A. Houck. 2001. Parasitic mites of pocket gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) from Texas, USA. International Journal of Acarology 27: 1 - 11.
  • Rapp, W. F., Jr. 1962. Distributional notes on parasitic mites. Acarologia 4: 31 - 33.