17. Androlaelaps casalis (Berlese, 1887)

Iphis casalis Berlese, 1887b: No. 8, figs 3–5.

Androlaelaps casalis . — Till, 1963: 23, figs 6–9, 25–29; Karg, 1971: 187, figs 201a, 203; Bregetova, 1977b: 533, fig. 425; Senotrusova, 1987: 181, fig. 90; Nikulina, 1987: 228, fig. 117, 1; Goncharova et al., 1991: 10.

Androlaelaps casalis casalis . — Evans & Till, 1966: 152, fig. 10.

Atricholaelaps megaventralis Strandtmann, 1947: 112, figs 1–4.

Atricholaelaps megaventralis . — Strandtmann, 1949: 337, figs 1–5, 16, 24; Zumpt & Patterson, 1951: 71; Bregetova, 1955a: 302, 313, figs 595, 602, 603, 630, 631.

Haemolaelaps casalis .—Bregetova, 1956: 89, 99, figs 143, 149, 165, 166; Vysotskaya & Bregetova, 1957: 14; Lange, 1958: 202, pl. LXXII, G; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 34; Goncharova & Buyakova, 1964: 279, figs 1, 6; Zemskaya, 1973: 129.

Haemolaelaps haemorrhagicus Asanuma, 1952: 87, fig. 1.

Haemolaelaps molestus Oudemans, 1929: 13 .

Hypoaspis freemani Strandtmann, 1956: 138 .

Hypoaspis oculatus Oudemans, 1915: 134, figs 49–55.

Hypoaspis soarianus Hull, 1925: 209, pl. XVIII, fig. 20.

Type locality. Italy, Venice.

Type host. Not specified. According to Berlese (1887b), the species dwells “in domibus obvius” (in houses).

Principal hosts. It is impossible to define the “principal” hosts for this species. Being an ecological opportunist, A. casalis occurs in bird and rodent nests, in poultry litter, on rodents etc. (Evans & Till, 1966; Zemskaya, 1973).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Evans & Till, 1966). In Asiatic Russia, it is widely distributed (Nikulina, 2004).