Palaeopsylla soricis ( Dale, 1878 )

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 : 25

Palaeopsylla soricis ( Dale, 1878)

Ceratophyllus soricis Dale, 1878: 291 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Vilbaste 1959; Daiter 1961a; Pototski 1989; 1990b; Pototski et al. 1993), Latvia ( Eglitis 1957; Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; Grinbergs 1961a; 1961b; 1976), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Kadytė 1964; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; Lipatova 2015; current study).

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

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of shrews of the genus Sorex (S i = 0.88).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Cooreman 1950; Niewiadomska 1953; Radvan 1959; Smit 1962; 1967; 1969; Jurík 1968; Adamovich 1971; Mahnert 1972; Haitlinger 1973; 1977a; 1977b; 2011; 2015; Suciu 1973; George 1974; Beaucournu & Gosalbez 1975; Chikilevskaya 1977; Brelih & Petrov 1978; Dudich 1984a; Vashchonok 1996; Lugon-Moulin 1999; Scherf 2000; Walter 2000; Iori et al. 2003; Striese et al. 2012; Kutzscher & Weber 2015; Baláž et al. 2019; Orlova et al. 2022).