Hyperlaelaps microti ( Ewing, 1933 )

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 : 11-12

Hyperlaelaps microti ( Ewing, 1933)

Tetragonyssus microti Ewing, 1933: 9 .

Laelaps arvalis . — Zakhvatkin 1948: 74.

Hyperlaelaps arvalis . — Bregetova 1953: 314. Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Daiter 1961b), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1982a; Arzamasov 1968; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Podėnaitė 1979; Kadytė & Jezerskienė 1986; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; Kaminskienė et al. 2017; 2020; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

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

Host specificity: moderately specific parasite of voles of the genus Microtus (S i = 0.68).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Evans & Till 1966; Edler 1969; 1972; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Mahnert 1971a; Zapatero Ramos et al. 1978; Mehl 1979; Haitlinger 1980; 2011; 2015; Ambros 1987; Schmölzer & Neudorf 1995; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Beron 2007; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Huhta 2015; Maaz et al. 2018; Siepel et al. 2018).