Ascoschoengastia latyshevi ( Schluger, 1955 )

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Ascoschoengastia latyshevi ( Schluger, 1955)

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Neoschoengastia latyshevi Schluger, 1955: 204 , figs. 331–333.

Ascoschoengastia (Paralaurentella) latyshevi, Kepka 1964a: 584 , fig. 11.

Ascoschoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) latyshevi, Kudryashova 1979: 72 ; Kolebinova 1992: 133, fig. 67.

Ascoschoengastia latyshevi, Kudryashova 1998: 284 , fig. 243.

Diagnosis. SIF = 6B-N-3-3111.1000; fPp = B/B/BBB; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2; fSc: PL> AM> AL; Ip = 576–695; fD = 2H-(12–18)-(11–14)-(8–9)-(6–7)-…; DS = 50–58; VS = 43–48; NDV = 94–105. Standard measurements of one specimen from Turkey: AW 50, PW 57, SB 24, ASB 23, PSB 21, SD 44, P-PL 12, AP 23, AM 22, AL 23, PL 32, H 37, D min 23, D max 31, V min 17, V max 28, pa 216, pm 180, pp 205, Ip 601, DS 51, VS 43, NDV 94, TaIII 51, fD = 2H-15-11-8-7-5-3 .

Type material (not examined). Holotype was not designated, type material is lost, and type locality is unknown.

Comparative material examined. Ten larvae (ZISP) ex Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp., RUSSIA: Stavropolskiy Krai , Pyatigorsk, Mashuk Mt, 44° 03' 18" N, 43° 06' 13" E, 700 m a.s.l., 10 June 1996, coll. AAS .

Material from Turkey examined. One larva (ZISP) ex Apodemus mystacinus , GümüŞhane Prov., UğurtaŞı , 1750 m a.s.l., 12 June 1998, coll. AAS .

Hosts. 14 rodent species, one soricomorph [ Crocidura suaveolens (Pallas) ], and two birds ( Parus major L. and Sitta europaea L.) ( Kudryashova 1998) plus Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston) .

Distribution. France ( Corsica), Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia (from European part to Sakhalin; to the north, up to Pskov and Leningrad Provinces), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. This species is here recorded from Turkey for the first time.