Schizocarpus saveljevi sp. nov. (Acariformes: Chirodiscidae) parasitizing the Eurasian beaver – Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 (Rodentia: Castoridae) from Leningrad Province (Russia)

A.V. Bochkov

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2012, 316(2): 166–171 · https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2012.316.2.166

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Abstract

Eight species of the fur-mite genus Schizocarpus Trouessart, 1896 (Acariformes: Chirodiscidae) were collected from one skin of the Eurasian beaver supposedly belonging to the subspecies Castor fiber (?) orientoeuropaeus Lavrov, 1981 (Rodentia: Castoridae) from Boksitogorsk District of Leningrad Province (Russia). Among them, Schizocarpus saveljevi sp. nov. is described as a new for science, S. zurowskii Bochkov et al., 2012 and S. heatherae Bochkov et al., 2012 are recorded from this beaver subspecies for the first time, and other five species are the same as on beavers of this subspecies from the Voronezh Reserve (Bochkov and Dubinina 2011), i.e. S. brachyurus (Dubinina, 1964), S. capitis (Dubinina, 1964), S. fedjushini (Dubinina, 1964), S. gozdziewskii Bochkov et al., 2012, and S. radiatus Fain et Lukoschus, 1985. The beaver skin was without head and therefore some Schizocarpus species specialized to this microhabitat were not collected.

Key words

acariform mites, Castor fiber, ectoparasites, Leningrad Province, Schizocarpus, systematics

Submitted April 15, 2012 · Accepted May 25, 2012 · Published June 25, 2012

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