Laelaps (mite)

Laelaps
Laelaps hilaris drawn by Oudemans
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Mesostigmata
Family: Laelapidae
Genus:
Koch, 1836
Type species
Laelaps agilis
Koch, 1836
Species

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Laelaps is a genus of common parasitic mites in the family Laelapidae. Species, with their hosts, include:

Unnamed or unidentified species have been reported on Gerbilliscus robustus and Acomys wilsoni in Tanzania[8] and on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida and Georgia.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Furman, 1972, p. 20
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10
  3. ^ a b Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Furman, 1972, p. 19
  5. ^ a b c Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20
  6. ^ a b c d e Furman, 1972, p. 18
  7. ^ For use of specific binomen L. giganteus in scientific literature, see:
    • Zumpt & Till, 1958;
    • Strandtman & Mitchell (1963);
    • Matthee, Horak, et al. (2007);
    • Nazarizadeh, Martinů, et al. (2022)
  8. ^ a b c d Stanley et al., 2007, p. 70
  9. ^ Stanley et al., 2007, p. 71
  10. ^ Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21
  11. ^ a b Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21
  12. ^ Worth, 1950, p. 330; Morlan, 1952, table 2

Literature cited

  • Furman, D.P. (1972). "Laelapid mites (Laelapidae: Laelapinae) from Venezuela". Brigham Young University Science Bulletin 17(3):1–58.
  • Matthee, Sonja; Horak, Ivan G.; Beaucournu, Jean-Claude; Durden, Lance A.; Ueckermann, Eddie A.; McGeoch, Melodie A. (February 2007). "Epifaunistic arthropod parasites of the four-striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio, in the Western Cape Province, South Africa". Journal of Parasitology. 93 (1): 47–59. doi:10.1645/GE-819R2.1. PMID 17436941. Archived 22 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  • Morlan, Harvey B. (1952). "Host Relationships and Seasonal Abundance of Some Southwest Georgia Southwest Georgia Ectoparasites". The American Midland Naturalist. 48 (1): 74–93. doi:10.2307/2422133. JSTOR 2422133.
  • Nazarizadeh, Masoud; Martinů, Jana; Nováková, Milena; Stanko, Michal; Štefka, Jan (December 2022). "Phylogeography of the parasitic mite Laelaps agilis in Western Palearctic shows lineages lacking host specificity but possessing different demographic histories". BMC Zoology. 7 (1): 15. doi:10.1186/s40850-022-00115-y. PMC 10127304. PMID 37170127. The main lineages of L. muricola and L. giganteus diverged from L. agilis and L. clethrionomydis ...
  • Stanley, W.T., Rogers, M.A., Senzota, R.B.M., Mturi, F.A., Kihaule, P.M., Moehlman, P.D. and O'Connor, B.M. (2007). "Surveys of small mammals in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania". Journal of East African Natural History 96(1):47–71.
  • Strandtman, R. W.; Mitchell, Carl J. (15 October 1963). "The Laelaptine Mites of the Echinolaelaps Complex from the Southwest Pacific Area" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 5 (3): 541–576. Archived 21 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine
  • Whitaker, John O.; Wilson, Nixon (1974). "Host and Distribution Lists of Mites (Acari), Parasitic and Phoretic, in the Hair of Wild Mammals of North America, North of Mexico". The American Midland Naturalist. 91 (1): 1–67. doi:10.2307/2424511. JSTOR 2424511.
  • Whitaker, J.O., Walters, B.L., Castor, L.K., Ritzi, C.M. and Wilson, N. (2007). "Host and distribution lists of mites (Acari), parasitic and phoretic, in the hair or on the skin of North American wild mammals north of Mexico: records since 1974". Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1:1–173.
  • Worth, C. Brooke (1950). "Observations on Ectoparasites of Some Small Mammals in Everglades National Park and Hillsborough County, Florida". The Journal of Parasitology. 36 (4): 326–335. doi:10.2307/3273467. JSTOR 3273467. PMID 15437232.
  • Zumpt, F.; Till, W. M. (November 1958). "Notes on the classification and synonymy of gamasid mites parasitic on vertebrates (Acarina: Mesostigmata)". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 21 (2). hdl:10520/AJA00128789_2505.