Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948

Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948: 74 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia (Daiter 1961b), Latvia (Lapina 1959; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1982b; Arzamasov 1968; Salmane 2001), Lithuania (Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Podėnaitė 1979; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

Hosts: A. agrarius (LV. LT), A. flavicollis (LV), A. sylvaticus (LV), M. minutus (EE, LV, LV), M. musculus (LV), R. norvegicus (LV), R. rattus (LV), C. glareolus (LV, LT), M. agrestis (LV, LT), M. arvalis (LV) .

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of M. minutus (S

i

= 0.94).

European distribution: Belarus, Finland, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine (Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Ambros 1987; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Haitlinger 2015; Huhta 2015).