TY  - Data
T1  - Rodents of the Soviet fauna
A1  - Documentation Information Center
DO  - 10.12389/ariddc.02137
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026-09-17
PB  - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
AB  - In view of the growing interest in the study of mites associated with rodents and the urgent need for identification tools, the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR undertook the preparation of this identification guide (Fauna of Small Animals, Issue 28). This publication represents the first attempt to compile identification keys for all groups of mites found on rodents and in their nests; therefore, it cannot claim to be exhaustive.The degree of study of various mite groups within the USSR is highly uneven. For example, chigger mites and certain other groups can be identified to species level, whereas representatives of poorly studied groups, particularly non-parasitic forms (such as Oribatei, Tarsonemini, and some Gamasoidea), can often be identified only to genus or even merely to family. This guide includes 63 families, 75 genera, and 249 species (including subspecies).The contributors to this identification guide include staff members of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (N. G. Bregatova, V. B. Dubinin, E. N. Pavlovsky, and G. V. Serdyukova); the Department of Entomology of Moscow State University (E. M. Branova-Zakhvatkina, A. A. Zakhvatkin, and A. B. Lange); the Department of Parasitology and Medical Zoology of the Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (A. A. Zemskaya and E. G. Shluger); and the Leningrad Institute of Applied Zoology and Plant Protection (V. I. Volgin).E. N. Pavlovsky wrote the preface, the introductory essay on the significance of mites and the current state of their study (including a list of mites recorded from rodents and their nests), and the section on the family Ixodidae; he also served as the general editor of the guide.A. A. Zakhvatkin prepared the general review of mite morphology and development, as well as the identification keys for mite superfamilies and certain families found on rodents. Together with V. I. Volgin,
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