Hoplopleura edentula Fahrenholz, 1916

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 : 18

Hoplopleura edentula Fahrenholz, 1916

Hoplopleura acanthopus var. edentulus Fahrenholz, 1916: 26 .

Records in Baltic States: Lithuania (current study).

Hosts: A. agrarius (LT) , A. flavicollis (LT) , C. glareolus (LT) , M. agrestis (LT) , M. arvalis (LT) .

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of C. glareolus (S i = 0.92).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland ( Beaucournu 1968; Černy 1971; Mahnert 1971b; Cais 1977; Haitlinger 1977a; 1980; 2011; 2015; Büttiker & Mahnert 1978; Zapatero Ramos et al. 1978; Kováčik 1984; Stanjukovich 1987; Kononova 1996; Krištofik & Dudich 2000b; Manilla 2003; Vas et al. 2012; Maaz et al. 2018).

Notes: This is the first record of H. edentula on small mammals in Baltic States ( Lithuania). Specimens were found in Central Lithuanian lowland (arable land, bogs, mature deciduous and mixed forests, young forests, natural meadows), Aukštaitija highland (arable land, mixed forests) and South-Eastern Lithuanian lowland (mature deciduous forests, natural meadows).