19. Androlaelaps ellobii (Bregetova, 1952)

Haemolaelaps ellobii Bregetova, 1952: 870, figs 20–21, 23–23.

Haemolaelaps ellobii . — Bregetova, 1955a: 306, 313, figs 598, 627, 635, 636; Bregetova, 1956: 93, 99, figs 137, 152; Lange, 1958: 203, pl. LXXII, fig. L; Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 36.

Androlaelaps ellobii .— Senotrusova, 1987: 189, fig. 94.

Type locality. Syntypes (ZIN) were collected in Western Kazakhstan, Turkmenia and Tajikistan.

Type host. Ellobius talpinus (Pallas, 1770) .

Principal hosts. Northern mole vole ( E. talpinus), possibly also other species of the genus Ellobius . Senotrusova (1987) indicated the steppe lemming, Lagurus lagurus (Pallas, 1773) as important hosts of A. ellobii in Kazakhstan.

Distribution. A. ellobii follows the distribution of its host, covering vast areas of southeastern Europe, northern Central Asia and Kazakhstan (Panteleev, 1998). In Asiatic Russia, the species was recorded from E. talpinus in the Omsk Region (Bregetova, 1956).