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EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 281-287Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9653-7
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Mesostigmatic; Laelapinae; Ectoparasite; Spotted barbtail
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- Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic [IAA601690901]
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [LC06073]
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (CONICET) [PIP0146]
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata [11N618]
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Androlaelaps fahrenholzi is a common, cosmopolitan mite constituting a species complex. This mite is found in nests or on mammal hosts and occasionally on birds. The specific host association between A. fahrenholzi-like mites and Premnoplex brunnescens in Costa Rica is reported here. Adults (females and males), deutonymphs and protonymphs were found on 14 P. brunnescens examined (prevalence was 100 %) with mean abundance 42 (2-222). The nest environment plays an important role in the evolution of parasites and could explain the evolutionary path of Laelapinae towards parasitism. We hypothesize that the colonization of P. brunnescens took place in this context quite recently, from sympatrically living rodents. Morphology and ecology of A. fahrenholzi from P. brunnescens may constitute at least a new variation of A. fahrenholzi, and possibly a new species.
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