Dermacentor reticulatus (Fabricius, 1794)

Acarus reticulatus Fabricius, 1794: 428 .

Dermacentor pictus . — Pomerancev 1950: 134.

Records in Baltic States: Lithuania (current study).

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

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S i = 0.16).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Moldova, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (Feider 1965; Černy 1972; Gilot et al. 1974; Martyn 1988; Jaenson et al. 1994; Santos-Silva et al. 2006; Porchet et al. 2007; García-Sanmartín et al. 2008; Bullová et al. 2009; Krčmar 2012; Obsomer et al. 2013; Pavlović et al. 2014; 2020; Jongejan et al. 2015; Ponomareva et al. 2015; Olivieri et al. 2016; Gračner Jadresic et al. 2017; Maaz et al. 2018; Hornok et al. 2020; Omeragić et al. 2022; Rubel & Brugger 2022).

Notes: it is the first record of D. reticulatus on small mammals in Baltic States (Lithuania). Dermacentor reticulatus is a frequent tick species in the off-host environment in Southern and Western part of Latvia (Capligina et al. 2020).