Amorphacarus hengererorum Jameson

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 54

Amorphacarus hengererorum Jameson

Ex Sorex cinereus (masked shrew): 1F, NC, Swain Co., Clingman’s Dome, 16 Nov. 2002, K. Walters, L­3033. Whitaker & Wilson (1974) reported A. hengererorum from four species of shrews (including S. cinereus )

and one species of rodent in North America but this is the first record of this mite from North Carolina and the

Park.