Spinturnix emarginata (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 : 2667-2668

Spinturnix emarginata (Kolenati, 1856)

Records: Gollomboç, 8 August 2006, 1 ♀; Çorovodë, 8 July 2011, 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 3 nymphs, all from M. emarginatus .

Male measurements (n = 2): idiosoma 853 long, 714 wide; dorsal shield 508–561 long, 503–550 wide; sternal shield 240–306 long, 240–307 wide.

This species, redescribed by Dusbábek (1964), is an ectoparasite of M. emarginatus , but was found also on M. schreibersii ( Bruyndonckx et al. 2009) . It was recorded in Bulgaria, Czech Republic ( Dusbábek 1964), Hungary ( Beron 1965),

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France ( Deunff 1977), Spain ( Peribañez-Lopez et al. 1989), Tajikistan ( Stanyukovich 1997), Poland (Krištofík et al. 2012) and Slovakia ( Krištofík and Danko 2012). Our material consists of 10 individuals (prevalence 100%, mean intensity 3.3, relative density 3.3) from M. emarginatus .