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Steatonyssus occidentalis

  • 1. All-Russian Research Institute of Veterinary Entomology and Arachnology RAS, Tyumen, 625041, Institutskaya str., 2 & National research Tomsk state university, Lenina str. 36, Tomsk, 634050 Russia
  • 2. University of Michigan, 3600 Varsity Dr. # 1030, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  • 3. All-Russian Research Institute of Veterinary Entomology and Arachnology RAS, Tyumen, 625041, Institutskaya str., 2 & Tyumen state medical university, Odesskaya str. 54, Tyumen, 625023 Russia
  • 4. Penza State University, Krasnaya str. 40, Penza, 440026 Russia
  • 5. National research Tomsk state university, Lenina str. 36, Tomsk, 634050 Russia & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4661 - 0560
  • 6. Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya sqr. 1, Voronezh, 394018 Russia
  • 7. Tver' state university, Zhelyabova str. 33, Tver', 170100 Russia
  • 8. Tyumen state university, Volodarskogo str. 6, Tyumen, 625003 Russia

Description

Steatonyssus occidentalis (Ewing, 1933)

Ceratonyssus occidentalis Ewing, 1933: 10.

Steatonyssus occidentalis.— Radford, 1942: 65; Fonseca, 1948: 319; Radovsky & Furman, 1963: 272; Yunker & Radovsky, 1966: 96; Miller et al., 1973: 609; Whitaker & Easterla, 1975: 246; Saunders, 1975: 88; Rybin, 1983: 359; Whitaker & Maser, 1985: 73; Rybin et al., 1989: 425; Durden et al., 1992: 507; Ritzi et al., 2001: tabl.; Rupp et al., 2004: 189.

Steatonyssus (S.) occidentalis.— Till & Evans, 1964: 559; Radovsky, 1966: 94; 1967: 206; 2010: 101; Pereira Lorenzo & Quinteiro Alonso, 1993: 19.

Type locality: Adel, Oregon (USA) (Ewing, 1933).

Type host: “Common brown bat” (Ewing, 1933).

Material. 14 FF (including 2 with intrauterine egg), 2 MM, 24 N1 ex Eptesicus serotinus from biological station “Venevitinovo”, 20 June 2019, leg. I. V. Budaeva.

Distribution in Russian Federation: Voronezh Province (present paper), Volgograd Province (Stanyukovich, 1997), Stavropol Region (Stanyukovich, 1997).

Distribution outside Russian Federation: Europe (Micherdzinski, 1980). Asia (Rybin 1983; Stanyukovich, 1997).

Hosts. Eptesicus serotinus (Stanyukovich, 1997; present paper), Myotis mystacinus (Stanyukovich, 1997), M. daubentonii (Haitlinger & Walter, 1997), M. blythii (Stanyukovich, 1997), Pipistrellus pipistrellus (as Vespertilio pipistrellus — Rybin, 1983), Plecotus auritus (Haitlinger & Walter, 1997), Pl. austriacus (Haitlinger & Walter, 1997), Nyctalus noctula (Haitlinger & Walter, 1997).

Notes

Published as part of Orlova, M. V., Klimov, P. B., Orlov, O. L., Smirnov, D. G., Zhigalin, A. V., Budaeva, I. V., Emelyanova, A. A. & Anisimov, N. V., 2021, A checklist of bat-associated macronyssid mites (Acari: Gamasina: Macronyssidae) of Russia, with new host and geographical records, pp. 537-564 in Zootaxa 4974 (3) on page 552, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4778060

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