Laelaps echidninus Berlese, 1887 Laelaps echidninus Berlese, 1887b: 1. Echinolaelaps echidninus.— Strandtmann & Wharton, 1958: 72; Alwar & Lalitha, 1960: 56; Rao et al., 1973: 1454; Pawar et al., 2016: 27. Laelaps (Echinolaelaps) echidninus.— Bhat et al., 1983: 99; Mitchell et al., 1966: 118; Vinarski & Korallo-Vinarskaya, 2016: 227; Govindarajan et al., 2021: 64. Laelaps echidnina.— Mishra et al., 1977: 47. Collection records in India: Madras, on rodents (Alwar & Lalitha, 1960); Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, Rattus blanfordi and R. rattus narbadae (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mitchell et al., 1966); Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, on rat and shrew (Rao et al., 1973); Western Ghats, Poona, on Vandeleuria oleracea (Rodentia: Muridae) (Mishra et al., 1977); multiple localities, on multiple species of small mammals (Bhat et al., 1983); Pune, in rat’s nest (Pawar et al., 2016); Madurai, Tamil Nadu, on pest rodents and shrews (Govindarajan et al., 2021).

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 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572