Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948

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 micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948

Laelaps micromydis Zakhvatkin, 1948: 74 .

Records in Baltic States: Estonia ( Daiter 1961b), Latvia ( Lapina 1959; 1988; Grinbergs 1960; 1961b; 1961d; 1964; 1982b; Arzamasov 1968; Salmane 2001), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Podėnaitė 1979; Kitrytė et al. 2022; current study).

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

Host specificity: highly specific parasite of M. minutus (S

i

= 0.94).

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