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Myonyssus gigas
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Myonyssus gigas (Oudemans, 1912)
Liponyssus gigas Oudemans, 1912: 231.
Myonyssus rossicus. — Bregetova 1956: 123, 126.
Records in Baltic States: Estonia (Daiter 1961b), Latvia (Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961d; Salmane 2001), Lithuania (Likevičienė 1957; Podėnaitė 1979; Kaminskienė et al. 2017; 2020; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).
Hosts: S. araneus (LV), A. agrarius (EE, LV), A. flavicollis (EE, LV, LT), C. glareolus (LV, LT).
European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Evans & Till 1966; Mahnert 1971a; Edler 1972; Ambros 1987; Schmölzer & Neudorf 1995; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Haitlinger 2015; Maaz et al. 2018).
Notes
Published as part of Kitrytė, Neringa & Baltrūnaitė, Laima, 2023, Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 5353 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8426731
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- Scientific name authorship
- Oudemans
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Mesostigmata
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- Laelapidae
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- Myonyssus
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- gigas
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- Myonyssus gigas (Oudemans, 1912) sec. Kitrytė & Baltrūnaitė, 2023
References
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- Bregetova, N. G. (1956) Gamasid mites (Gamasoidea). A brief guide. Identification books of the USSR fauna. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad, 247 pp. [in Russian]
- Daiter, A. B. (1961 b) The Gamasoidea of small mammals in Estonia. Faunistilisi Markmeid, 1 (2), 110 - 121. [in Russian]
- Lapina, I. M. (1959) Study of ectoparasites of small forest mammals in the Latvian SSR. Fauna Latviskoi SSR, 2, 289 - 322. [in Russian]
- Lapina, I. M. (1960) Ectoparasite fauna of insectivores (Insectivora) of the Latvian SSR. In: Thesis Reports of the Second Scientific - Coordinating Conference on the Problems of Parasitology in the Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Estonian SSR and Belarusian SSR, Riga, pp. 128 - 129. [in Russian]
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- Maaz, D., Krucken, J., Blumke, J., Richter, D., McKay-Demeler, J., Matuschka, F. R., S. Hartmann & von Samson-Himmelstjerna, G. (2018) Factors associated with diversity, quantity and zoonotic potential of ectoparasites on urban mice and voles. PLoS ONE, 13 (6), e 0199385. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0199385