Myobia musculi (Koch)

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 54

Myobia musculi (Koch)

Ex Mus musculus (house mouse): 1F, TN, Blount Co., Elkmont, 6 Jul. 1937, W. King; 3F, TN, Blount Co., Cades Cove School House, 4 Sep. 1936, R. V. D.; 1F, TN, Sevier Co., Park Headquarters, 6 Jul. 1937, E. R. Myobia musculi has an almost cosmopolitan distribution as an ectoparasite of the house mouse although Whitaker & Wilson (1974) also recorded it in North America from two additional rodent species.