Hoplopleura acanthopus (Burmeister, 1839)

Pediculus acanthopus Burmeister, 1839: genus Pediculus, Species 5.

Records in Baltic States: Latvia (Lapina 1959; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1980b; Andersone 1963), Lithuania (Šivickis 1955; Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; current study).

Hosts: S. araneus (LV), A. flavicollis (LV, LT), M. musculus (LV, LT), R. norvegicus (LV), A. oeconomus (LT), A. amphibius (LV), C. glareolus (LV, LT), M. agrestis (LV, LT), M. arvalis (LV, LT) .

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of voles of the genus Microtus (S i = 0.81).

European distribution: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,

France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (Brinck 1950; Smetana 1960; 1961; Blagoveshchensky 1964; Wegner 1966; Beaucournu 1968; Voicu & Straton 1968; Mehl 1970; Piotrowski 1970; Mahnert 1971b; Haitlinger 1973; 1977a; 1980; 2011; 2015; Cais 1977; Büttiker & Mahnert 1978; Zapatero Ramos et al. 1978; Kováčik 1984; Kononova 1996; Krištofik & Dudich 2000b; Walter 2000; Manilla 2003; O’Connor et al. 2005; Vas et al. 2012; Krčmar & Trilar 2017; Maaz et al. 2018).

Notes: This species is present in Estonian database https://elurikkus.ee/ without information about its host species.