Genus Myonyssus Tiraboschi, 1904

Tetragonyssus Ewing, 1924 (partim)

Type species. Myonyssus decumani Tiraboschi, 1904 .

Remarks. The genus is distributed in Europe, Northern and Central Asia, North America and Australasia (Strandtmann & Garrett, 1970; Mašán & Fenďa, 2010). Strandtmann & Garrett (1970) included seven species within the genus Myonyssus, and considered these mites rare, “encountered occasionally in the fur of rodents and pikas.”.