Neotrombicula japonica ( Tanaka, Kaiwa, Teramura & Kagaya, 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 : 6

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scientific name	Neotrombicula japonica ( Tanaka, Kaiwa, Teramura & Kagaya, 1930 )
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Trombicula autumnalis japonica Tanaka, Kaiwa, Teramura & Kagaya, 1930: 353 .

Records in Baltic States: Lithuania (current study).

Hosts: A. agrarius (LT) , A. flavicollis (LT) , C. glareolus (LT) , M. arvalis (LT) .

Host specificity: generalist parasite (S i = 0.07).

European distribution: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia ( Daniel & Heneberg 1972; Pereira-Lorenzo 1993; Kudryashova 1998; Imaz et al. 2006; Moniuszko & Mąkol 2014).

Notes: This is the first record of N. japonica on small mammals in Baltic States ( Lithuania). Specimens were found in Aukštaitija highland (natural meadows and mature mixed forests) and in South-Eastern Lithuanian lowland (natural meadows).

References

Daniel, M. & Heneberg, N. (1972) Chiggers parasitizing small mammals in the Southern part of Yugoslavia (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Folia Parasitologica (Praha), 19, 133 - 138.

Imaz, A., Galicia, D., Moraza, M. I. & Stekolnikov, A. A. (2006) Contribution to the knowledge of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) parasitizing Apodemus sylvaticus (L.) (Rodentia, Muridae) on the Iberian peninsula. Acarologia, 46 (1 - 2), 53 - 64.

Kudryashova, N. I. (1998) Chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press Ltd, Moscow, 342 pp. [in Russian]

Moniuszko, H. & Makol, J. (2014) Chigger mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengona, Trombiculidae) of Poland. An updated distribution and hosts. Annals of Parasitology, 60 (2), 103 - 117.

Pereira-Lorenzo, A. (1993) Chiggers (Acarina: Trombiculidae) parasitizing small mammals in Galicia (NW Spain). Acarologia, 34, 323 - 329.

Tanaka, K., Kaiwa, J., Teramura, S. & Kagaya, J. (1930) Beitrage zur Japanischen Kedani-Krankheit. Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, 116, 353 - 385.