Spinturnix myoti (Kolenati, 1856)

Sachanowicz, Konrad, Krištofík, Ján & Ciechanowski, Mateusz, 2014, Spinturnicid mites of bats in Albania - host spectrum and morphometrics as a tool of species separation, Journal of Natural History 48 (43 - 44), pp. 2661-2674 : 2670

Spinturnix myoti (Kolenati, 1856)

Records: Goranxi, 21 April 2004, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 2 nymphs from M. nattereri ; Vanister, 22 April 2004, 1 ♀ and 16 September 2012, 1 ♀ from M. oxygnathus ; Halo, 27 April 2004, 1 ♂, 5 ♀♀, 1 nymph from M. myotis ; Qafa e Malit II, 17 September 2005, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ from M. nattereri ; Suç, 25 September 2005, 2 ♀♀ from M. myotis ; Tresovë, 12 August 2006, 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 1 nymph, 7 July 2011, 3 ♂♂, 1 nymph, all from M. nattereri ; Barbullej, 30 June 2011, 1 ♂, 6 nymphs from M. oxygnathus ; Çorovodë, 8 July 2011, 2 ♂♂ from M. capaccinii ; Tepelene, 10 July 2011, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, 1 nymph from M. myotis and 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 3 nymphs from M. oxygnathus .

The species occurs mainly on M. myotis and M. oxygnathus ( Deunff 1977) , sporadically on other species of genus Myotis and bats from genera Rhinolophus , Pipistrellus , Eptesicus and Vespertilio , as well as on Barbastella barbastellus , N. noctula and P. auritus ( Stanyukovich 1997) . It is distributed in Europe ( Rudnick 1960; Haitlinger and Walter 1997), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan ( Stanyukovich 1997), Mongolia ( Dusbábek 1966), Japan ( Uchikawa and Wada 1979) and North Africa ( Dusbábek 1962; Bruyndonckx et al. 2010). In total, we collected 50 individuals (prevalence 36.8%, mean intensity 3.6, relative density 1.3), 20 individuals from M. nattereri , 14 from M. oxygnathus , 14 from M. myotis and two from M. capaccinii .