Ctenophthalmus assimilis ( Taschenberg, 1880 )

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 : 27

Ctenophthalmus assimilis ( Taschenberg, 1880)

Typhlopsylla assimilis Taschenberg, 1880: 95 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Pototski 1990a; 1990b), Latvia ( Eglitis 1957; Lapina 1959; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1976; Andersone 1963), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; Pakalniškis & Žygutienė 2004; Lipatova 2015; current study).

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

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine ( Séguy 1944; Cooreman 1950; Niewiadomska 1953; Radvan 1959; Smit 1962; 1967; Jurík 1968; Adamovich 1971; Mahnert 1972; Haitlinger 1973; 1977a; 1977b; 1980; 2011; 2015; Suciu 1973; Weidner 1973; Chikilevskaya 1977; Brelih & Petrov 1978; Dudich 1984a; Vashchonok 1996; Scherf 2000; Walter 2000; Iori et al. 2003; Brelih & Trilar 2004; Várfalvyová et al. 2011; Gómez López & Shimalov 2013; Kutzscher & Weber 2015; Maaz et al. 2018).