Peromyscopsylla bidentata ( Kolenati, 1863 )

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 : 26

Peromyscopsylla bidentata ( Kolenati, 1863)

Ctenopsyllus bidentatus Kolenati, 1863: 38 .

Leptopsylla bidentata . — Jordan 1932: 257.

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Vilbaste 1959; Daiter 1961a; Pototski 1989; 1990b; Pototski et al. 1993), Latvia ( Eglitis 1957; Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; Grinbergs 1960; 1961d; 1964; 1976), Lithuania ( Šivickis 1955; Kadytė 1964; Jezerskienė 1974; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; Lipatova 2015; current study).

Hosts: S. araneus (LV) , A. agrarius (EE, LV, LT) , A. flavicollis (EE, LV, LT) , A. oeconomus (LT) , C. glareolus (EE, LV, LT) , M. agrestis (EE, LV, LT) , M. arvalis (EE, LT) .

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S i = 0.48).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia ( Smit 1967; 1969; Jurík 1968; Adamovich 1971; Mahnert 1972; Suciu 1973; Beaucournu & Gosalbez 1975; Chikilevskaya 1977; Haitlinger 1977b; Brelih & Petrov 1978; Dudich 1984a; Brelih 1986; Vashchonok 1996; Scherf 2000; Iori et al. 2003; Brelih & Trilar 2004; Striese et al. 2012; Baláž et al. 2019).