Laelaps jettmari Vitzthum, 1930

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 : 13

Laelaps jettmari Vitzthum, 1930

Laelaps jettmari Vitzthum, 1930: 405 .

Laelaps pavlovskyi . — Zakhvatkin 1948: 66.

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Daiter 1961b; Daiter & Kuzhilnij 1961; Arzamasov 1968), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1988; Arzamasov 1968; Grinbergs 1982b; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Podėnaitė 1979; Kadytė & Jezerskienė 1986; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

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

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of A. agrarius (S i = 0.95).

European distribution: Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine ( Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Haitlinger 1980; 2011; 2015; Ambros 1987; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Maaz et al. 2018).