Macronyssus heteromorphus Dusbábek and Radovsky, 1972

Orlova, M. V. & Orlov, O. L., 2015, Attempt To Define The Complexes Of Bat Ectoparasites In The Boreal Palaearctic Region, Vestnik Zoologii 49 (1), pp. 75-86 : 80

Macronyssus heteromorphus Dusbábek and Radovsky, 1972

The species was described in the Kuril Islands on the uncharacteristic host — the grey rat ( Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769)) . Earlier findings were made on the eastern water bat, Myotis sibiricus , northern bat, Hilgendorf’s tube-nosed bat Murina hilgendorfi in Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Far East ( Stanyukovich, 1997), as well as on the territory of Tuva (own data).