Hoplopleura affinis (Burmeister, 1839)

Pediculus affinis Burmeister, 1839: genus Pediculus, Species 10.

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

Hosts: S. araneus (LV), A. agrarius (LV, LT), A. flavicollis (LV, LT), M. minutus (LV), M. musculus (LT), C. glareolus (LT), M. agrestis (LT) .

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of A. agrarius (S i = 0.99).

European distribution: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (Smetana 1961; Blagoveshchensky 1964; Wegner 1966; Beaucournu 1968; Voicu & Straton 1968; Piotrowski 1970; Kováčik 1984; Krištofik & Dudich 2000b; Manilla 2003; Haitlinger 2011; 2015; Vas et al. 2012; Krčmar & Trilar 2017; Maaz et al. 2018).

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