Steatonyssus periblepharus Kolenati, 1858

Orlova, M. V. & Orlov, O. L., 2015, Attempt To Define The Complexes Of Bat Ectoparasites In The Boreal Palaearctic Region, Vestnik Zoologii 49 (1), pp. 75-86 : 83

Steatonyssus periblepharus Kolenati, 1858

Previously found in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic countries and Germany. Known findings is the boreal zone ( Bulgaria, Moldova, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Mongolia and China) ( Dusbábek, 1972; Haitlinger, 1978; Micherdzinski, 1980; Stanyukovich, 1990; Rupp et al., 2004). Polyxenous, parasitising on a many of hosts family Vespertilionidae , but the most preferred are the species of the genera Myotis and Pipistrellus (Haitlinger, 1978) , and to a greater extent S. periblepharus , obviously focused on bats because all of the findings are made in the parasite within the range of species of this genus (Orlov, 2013).