Hystrichopsylla orientalis Smit, 1956

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Hystrichopsylla orientalis Smit, 1956

Hystrichopsylla orientalis Smit, 1956: 296 .

Records in Baltic States: Lithuania ( Lipatova 2015; 2020; current study).

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

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S

i

= 0.37).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia ( Smit 1962; 1967; 1969; Haitlinger 1973; 1977a; 1977b; 1980; 2011; 2015; Suciu 1973; Brelih & Petrov 1978; Dudich 1984b; Iori et al. 2003; Várfalvyová et al. 2011; Gómez López & Shimalov 2013; Maaz et al. 2018; Baláž et al. 2019).