Myonyssus gigas ( Oudemans, 1912 )

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 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8436360
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scientific name	Myonyssus gigas ( Oudemans, 1912 )
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Myonyssus gigas ( Oudemans, 1912)

Liponyssus gigas Oudemans, 1912: 231 .

Myonyssus rossicus . — Bregetova 1956: 123, 126.

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Daiter 1961b), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961d; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Podėnaitė 1979; Kaminskienė et al. 2017; 2020; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

Hosts: S. araneus (LV) , A. agrarius (EE, LV) , A. flavicollis (EE, LV, LT) , C. glareolus (LV, LT) .

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Evans & Till 1966; Mahnert 1971a; Edler 1972; Ambros 1987; Schmölzer & Neudorf 1995; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Haitlinger 2015; Maaz et al. 2018).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Mesostigmata
Family	Laelapidae
Genus	Myonyssus