Hystrichopsylla talpae ( Curtis, 1826 )

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, Zootaxa 5353 (1), pp. 1-46 : 29

Hystrichopsylla talpae ( Curtis, 1826)

Pulex talpae Curtis, 1826 : plate 114.

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Vilbaste 1959; Daiter 1961a; Pototski 1989; 1990b; Pototski et al. 1993), Latvia ( Eglitis 1957; Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1976; Andersone 1963), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Podėnaitė 1960; Kadytė 1964; Jezerskienė 1974; Lipatova & Paulauskas 2010; current study).

Hosts: N. fodiens (EE) , S. araneus (LV) , A. agrarius (EE, LV, LT) , A. flavicollis (EE, LV, LT) , M. minutus (LV) , M. musculus (LV, LT) , R. norvegicus (LV) , A. oeconomus (LT) , A. amphibius (LV) , C. glareolus (EE, LV, LT) , M. agrestis (EE, LV, LT) , M. arvalis (EE, LV, LT) .

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S i = 0.27).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Niewiadomska 1953; Radvan 1959; Smit 1967; 1969; Jurík 1968; Adamovich 1971; Mahnert 1972; Weidner 1973; George 1974; Beaucournu & Gosalbez 1975; Chikilevskaya 1977; Haitlinger 1977b; 2011; 2015; Brelih & Petrov 1978; Libois 1979; Dudich 1984a; Vashchonok 1996; Scherf 2000; Walter 2000; Iori et al. 2003; Striese et al. 2012; Kutzscher & Weber 2015; Maaz et al. 2018).