Hoplopleura affinis ( Burmeister, 1839 )

Kitrytė, Neringa & Baltrūnaitė, Laima, 2023, Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5353 (1), pp. 1-46 : 18

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.