Hirsutiella zachvatkini ( Schluger, 1948 )

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 : 5

Hirsutiella zachvatkini ( Schluger, 1948)

Trombicula zachvatkini Schluger, 1948: 160 .

Records in Baltic States: Latvia ( Grinbergs 1959; 1960; 1961a; 1961b; 1961c; 1961d; 1964; Lapina 1959; 1960; 1961; Andersone 1963; Berinya & Lapina 1986), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957; Jezerskienė 1974; Podėnaitė 1979; Arnastauskienė et al. 1989; current study).

Hosts: S. araneus (LV, LT) , S. minutus (LT) , A. agrarius (LV, LT) , A. flavicollis (LV, LT) , A. sylvaticus (LV, LT) , M. minutus (LT) , M. musculus (LV) , A. oeconomus (LT) , A. amphibius (LV) , C. glareolus (LV, LT) , M. agrestis (LV, LT) , M. arvalis (LV, LT) ..

Host specificity: A moderately specific parasite of voles of the genus Clethrionomys (S i = 0.63).

European distribution: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia ( Daniel 1957; Mahnert 1971a; Haitlinger 1979; Pereira-Lorenzo 1993; Kudryashova 1998; Stekolnikov 2001; Imaz et al. 2006; Beron 2007; Moniuszko & Mąkol 2014; Maaz et al. 2018; Stålstedt et al. 2019; Haarder & Mąkol 2022).