Hirstionyssus sunci Wang, 1962

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

Hirstionyssus sunci Wang, 1962

Hirstionyssus sunci Wang, 1962: 413 .

Hirstionyssus musculi . — Bregetova 1956: 185, 194.

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Daiter 1961b), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961b; 1961d; Arzamasov 1968; Berinya & Lapina 1986; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Podėnaitė 1979; Kaminskienė et al. 2020; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

Hosts: A. agrarius (EE, LV, LT) , A. flavicollis (EE, LV, LT) , M. musculus (EE, LV, LT) , R. norvegicus (LV) , R. rattus (LV) , C. glareolus (LV) , M. arvalis (LT) .

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of mice of the genus Apodemus (S i = 0.93).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine ( Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Edler 1969; 1972; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Mahnert 1971a; Mehl 1979; Haitlinger 1980; 1993; 2011; 2015; Ambros 1987; Schmölzer & Neudorf 1995; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Várfalvyová et al. 2011; Huhta 2015; Maaz et al. 2018).