Hoplopleura acanthopus ( Burmeister, 1839 )

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 : 17-18

Hoplopleura acanthopus ( Burmeister, 1839)

Pediculus acanthopus Burmeister, 1839 : genus Pediculus , Species 5.

Records in Baltic States: Latvia ( Lapina 1959; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1980b; Andersone 1963), Lithuania ( Šivickis 1955; Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; current study).

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

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of voles of the genus Microtus (S i = 0.81).

European distribution: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,

France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Brinck 1950; Smetana 1960; 1961; Blagoveshchensky 1964; Wegner 1966; Beaucournu 1968; Voicu & Straton 1968; Mehl 1970; Piotrowski 1970; Mahnert 1971b; Haitlinger 1973; 1977a; 1980; 2011; 2015; Cais 1977; Büttiker & Mahnert 1978; Zapatero Ramos et al. 1978; Kováčik 1984; Kononova 1996; Krištofik & Dudich 2000b; Walter 2000; Manilla 2003; O’Connor et al. 2005; Vas et al. 2012; Krčmar & Trilar 2017; Maaz et al. 2018).

Notes: This species is present in Estonian database https://elurikkus.ee/ without information about its host species.