Laelaps hilaris Koch, 1836

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 hilaris Koch, 1836

Laelaps hilaris Koch, 1836: 20 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Daiter 1961b; Daiter & Kuzhilnij 1961), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1970; 1982b; Andersone 1963; Arzamasov 1968; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Podėnaitė 1979; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; Kaminskienė et al. 2020; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

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

Host specificity: moderately specific parasite of voles of the genus Microtus (S i = 0.78).

European distribution: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom ( Bregetova et al. 1955; Bregetova 1956; Pirjanik 1962; Evans & Till 1966; Edler 1969; 1972; Shcherbak & Dudarenko 1970; Mahnert 1971a; Zapatero Ramos et al. 1978; Mehl 1979; Haitlinger 1980; 2011; 2015; Ambros 1987; Schmölzer & Neudorf 1995; Chikilevskaya et al. 1998; Bernini et al. 2003; Beron 2007; Mašán & Fenďa 2010; Várfalvyová et al. 2011; Huhta 2015; Maaz et al. 2018; Siepel et al. 2018).