Ondatralaelaps multispinosus ( Banks, 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 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8426838
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scientific name	Ondatralaelaps multispinosus ( Banks, 1909 )
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Ondatralaelaps multispinosus ( Banks, 1909)

Laelaps multispinosus Banks, 1909: 136 .

Records in Baltic States: Latvia ( Salmane 2001).

Hosts: A. amphibius (LV) .

European distribution: Belarus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom ( Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956; Evans & Till 1966; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Šefrová & Laštůvka 2005, Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Huhta 2015).

Notes: O. multispinosus is a specific parasite of Ondatra zibethicus ( Linnaeus 1758) ( Mašán & Fenďa 2010) , occasionally can be found on other host species ( Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Karbowiak et al. 2023).