Spinturnicid mites of bats in Albania - host spectrum and morphometrics as a tool of species separation Sachanowicz, Konrad Krištofík, Ján Ciechanowski, Mateusz Journal of Natural History 2014 2014-08-19 48 43 - 44 2661 2674 8N8QK (Kolenati, 1856) Kolenati 1856 [472,910,1381,1406] Arachnida Spinturnicidae Spinturnix GBIF Animalia Mesostigmata 7 2667 Arthropoda species emarginata  Male measurements ( n= 2): idiosoma 853 long, 714 wide; dorsal shield 508–561 long, 503–550 wide; sternal shield 240–306 long, 240–307 wide. This species, redescribed by Dusbábek (1964), is an ectoparasite of  M. emarginatus, but was found also on  M. schreibersii( Bruyndonckx et al. 2009). It was recorded in Bulgaria, Czech Republic( Dusbábek 1964), Hungary( Beron 1965), 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 ) 0.0 % 4.5 (–0.5 2 PC –1.0 –1.5 –2.0 –2.5 –3.0 –3.0 –2.5 –2.0 –1.5 –1.0 –0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 PC 1 (92.9%)  Figure 2. Scatter plot of PC1 and PC2 in females; symbol explanations as in Figure 1.  France( Deunff 1977), Spain( Peribañez-Lopez et al. 1989), Tajikistan( Stanyukovich 1997), Poland(Krištofík et al. 2012) and Slovakia( Krištofík and Danko 2012). Our material consists of 10 individuals (prevalence 100%, mean intensity 3.3, relative density 3.3) from  M. emarginatus.