Spinturnix emarginata (Kolenati, 1856)

Orlova, Maria V., Dundarova, Heliana, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Shakula, Georgiy V., Baskakova, Svetlana V., Shakula, Fedor V., Shakula, Stepan V., Kuzminov, Ilya V. & Boyarintsev, Daniel I., 2023, New geographical records of spinturnicid mites (Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Spinturnicidae) in Kazakhstan, Ecologica Montenegrina 63, pp. 105-112 : 106

Spinturnix emarginata (Kolenati, 1856)

Material. 3 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ ( Figs. 1 B, C ; Table 1) ex Myotis emarginatus ( Fig. 1D ), from Bazhansay River ( Kazakhstan, Karatau Mountains), 43°04′ N 69°54′ E, 27 VII 2022, leg. H. Dundarova, det. M. V. Orlova .

Distribution. Kazakhstan (this study, new record). Russia (Crimea – Orlova & Orlov 2018, Dagestan – Orlova et al. 2021), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic (Dusbábek 1964), Hungary (Beron 1965), France (Deunff 1977), Spain (Peribañez- Lopez et al. 1989), Tajikistan ( Stanyukovich 1997), Poland, Slovakia ( Krištofik et al. 2012) and Serbia (Burazerović et al. 2017).

Principal host. Myotis emarginatus ( Orlova & Orlov 2018; this study).

Other hosts. My. blythii ( Burazerović et al., 2018) , Rhinolophus euryale ( Chiroptera : Rhinolophidae ) ( Beron 2020).

Remark. Rare, poorly studied species probably distributed over the range of the principal host.

Figures

Figure 1. A. Map of Kazakhstan, black triangles mark places of bat capturing. B. Spinturnix emarginata, female, dorsal idiosoma, drawing by Maria V. Orlova, scale bar 100 μm; C. sternal shield, photo by Nikolai V. Anisimov. D. Myotis emarginatus, photo by Heliana Dundarova.