Chelanyssus aethiopicus
Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Chelanyssus aethiopicus (Hirst, 1921) Liponyssus aethiopicus Hirst, 1921: 783. Chelanyssus aethiopicus.— Till & Evans, 1966: 403. (Figs 4A–B) Material: 2 females, one containing an egg, ex female Mops pumilus from Oromia, Wellega, Dhati-Welel National Park, 09°14'N, 34°53'E, 1427 m ASL, 9 February 2014, leg. Sergei V. Kruskop (collection ID ZMMU S-192871); 1 protonymph, from female ex Mops pumilus, from Oromia, Arsi Zone, 1 km north-east from Dera, 08°20'N, 39°20'E, 1705 m ASL, 21 April 2012, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S-190433). Distribution: Ethiopia (this study, new record), Burundi (Till & Evans 1966), Rwanda (as Congo – Till & Evans 1966), Congo (Brazzaville) (Till & Evans 1966), DR Congo (Till & Evans 1966), Kenya (Whitaker & Mumford 1978), Madagascar (Till & Evans 1966), Malawi (Hirst 1921), Mozambique (Zumpt 1961), South Africa (as Transvaal – Zumpt 1961), Sudan (Hirst 1921), Tanzania (Radovsky 1967), Vietnam (Grokhovskaya & Nguyen 1961 – the only Asian record of the species). Host species: Chiropteran hosts: “bat” (Chiroptera) (Hirst 1921); Family Vespertilionidae: Pipistrellus coromandra (Grokhovskaya & Nguyen 1961), Nycticeinops sp. (as Nycticeius sp. – Zumpt 1961); Family Molossidae: Mops leucostigma (as Tadarida (Chaerephon) leucostigma – Till & Evans 1966), M. limbata (as Tadarida (Chaerephon) limbata – Radovsky 1967), M. major (as Tadarida major – Zumpt 1961), M. nigeriae spillmanni, Mops condylura (as Tadarida (Mops) condylura – Till & Evans 1966), M. midas (as Tadarida (Mops) midas – Till & Evans 1966), Mops pumilus (as Tadarida (Mops) pumila – Whitaker & Mumford 1978; as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila – Radovsky 1967; as Tadarida pumila – Zumpt 1961; as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila naivashae (Keegan 1956); this study. Non-chiropteran host: “elephant shrew” (Macroscelidea; not identified) (Hirst 1921). Medical significance: Unknown.
Authors: Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V.
Institutions: National Research Tomsk State University, Tyumen State Medical University, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian National Insect Collection, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Ekaterinburg Research Institute of Viral Infections
Language: English
Topic: Study of Mite Species
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930833254
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