Laelaps turkestanicus Lange, 1955 Laelaps (Rattilaelaps) turkestanicus Lange, 1955: 329. Laelaps turkestanicus.— Tipton, 1960: 284; Rao et al., 1973: 1454; Mishra et al., 1977: 47; Bhat et al., 1983: 98; Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016: 232. Collection records in India: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, on rats (Rao et al., 1973); Western Ghats, Pune, on Rattus rattus rufescens (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mishra et al., 1977); Multiple localities, on multiple species of Mus and Rattus (Bhat et al., 1983).
Published as part of Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna & Halliday, Bruce, 2023, Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 5249 (4) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572
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