Megabothris turbidus ( Rothschild, 1909 )

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 : 23

Megabothris turbidus ( Rothschild, 1909)

Ceratophyllus turbidus Rothschild, 1909: 59 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Vilbaste 1959; Daiter 1961a; Pototski 1990b; Pototski et al. 1993), Latvia ( Eglitis 1957; Lapina 1959; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1976; Andersone 1963), Lithuania ( Podėnaitė 1960; Kadytė 1964; Jezerskienė 1974; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; Lipatova & Paulauskas 2010; Lipatova 2015; current study).

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

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S i = 0.28).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Luxemburg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Cooreman 1950; Niewiadomska 1953; Smit 1962; 1967; 1969; Mehl 1967; Jurík 1968; Adamovich 1971; Mahnert 1972; Haitlinger 1973; 1977a; 1977b; 1980; 2011; 2015; Suciu 1973; Weidner 1973; George 1974; Beaucournu & Gosalbez 1975; Chikilevskaya 1977; Beaucournu 1978; Brelih & Petrov 1978; Libois 1979; Dudich 1984a; Brelih 1986; Vashchonok 1996; Scherf 2000; Walter 2000; Iori et al. 2003; Brelih & Trilar 2004; Striese et al. 2012; Gómez López & Shimalov 2013; Kutzscher & Weber 2015; Maaz et al. 2018; Baláž et al. 2019).