Androlaelaps casalis ( Berlese, 1887 )

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 : 7

Androlaelaps casalis ( Berlese, 1887)

Iphis casalis Berlese, 1887: 8 .

Haemolaelaps megaventralis .— Strandtmann 1949: 337.

Haemolaelaps casalis . — Bregetova 1956: 89, 99.

Records in Baltic States: Latvia ( Berinya & Lapina 1986; Lapina 1988; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Podėnaitė 1960; 1979; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

Hosts: S. araneus (LT) , A. flavicollis (LT) , R. rattus (LV) , A. amphibius (LV) , C. glareolus (LT) , M. arvalis (LT) .

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Evans & Till 1966; Edler 1969; 1972; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Mehl 1979; Haitlinger 1980; Schmölzer & Neudorf 1995; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Bernini et al. 2003; Várfalvyová et al. 2011; Huhta 2015; Siepel et al. 2018).

Notes: Mites of the species A. casalis were found in the off-host environment in Estonia (https://elurikkus.ee).