taxonID	type	description	language	source
93743C6EFFA65703FF6488BEFAF74EED.taxon	materials_examined	Material: 1 male, ex female Myotis bocagei (Peters, 1870), from Ethiopia, Gambela, Mezhenger zone, 10 km west from Meti, surroundings of Lake Bishan-Waka, 7 ° 17 ' N, 35 ° 16 ' E, 1370 m ASL, 1 April 2007, leg. Sergei V. Kruskop (collection ID ZMMU S- 181605). Distribution. Cameroon (Anciaux de Faveaux 1965), DR Congo (as Belgian Congo – Zumpt 1961), Sudan (Zumpt & Till 1954), Zaire (Benoit 1958 a, b), China (Luo et al., 2007); Ethiopia (this study, new record). Host species: Family Vespertilionidae: Scotophilus colias (as Scotophilus murinoflavus – Zumpt & Till 1954), S. nigrita (Benoit 1958 b), S. gigas (Benoit 1958 a, b), S. leucogaster (Anciaux de Faveaux 1965), Myotis bocagei (this study, new record). Non-chiropteran host: Unknown. Medical significance: Unknown. Notes: Dusbábek & Bergmans (1980) and Beron (2020) reviewed previous records of this species. Luo et al. (2007) recorded five species of Spinturnicidae from Yunnan, China, including Spinturnix scotophili, but their list of hosts does not include any bats. We have not confirmed that record.	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
93743C6EFFA55702FF648906FBA24C77.taxon	materials_examined	Material: 1 female, ex female Miniopterus cf. arenarius, from Ethiopia, Zone of the Southern Nations, eastern shore of the lake Chamo, 05 ° 47 ' N, 37 ° 36 ' E, 1100 m asl, 23 April 2011, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S- 189353). Distribution: DR Congo (as Belgian Congo – Benoit 1959), Ethiopia (this study, new record). Host species: Family Vespertilionidae: Pseudoromicia rendalli (Benoit 1959). Family Miniopteridae: Miniopterus cf. arenarius (this study, new record). Non-chiropteran host: Unknown. Medical significance: Unknown. Notes: This is only the second published record of this species (Beron 2020).	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
93743C6EFFA45702FF648C64FB064919.taxon	materials_examined	Material: 1 male, ex female Miniopterus arenarius, from Zone of the Southern Nations, eastern shore of the lake Chamo, 23 April 2011, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S- 189350). Distribution. South Africa (de Meillon & Lavoipierre, 1944); Angola, Central African Republic, DR Congo (as Belgian Congo – Zumpt & Till 1954), Ethiopia (this study, new record), Kenya, Saudi Arabia, South Africa (as Transvaal – Zumpt & Till 1954), Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda (Beron 2020). Host species: Family Miniopteridae: Miniopterus natalensis (de Meillon & Lavoipierre 1944), Min. inflatus (Benoit 1958 a), Min. minor (Benoit 1958 b), Min. natalensis (as Min. schreibersi natalensis – Anciaux de Faveaux 1965), Miniopterus arenarius (this study, new record); Family Rhinolophidae: Rhinolophus h. hildebrandti (Anciaux de Faveaux 1965). Non-chiropteran host: Unknown. Medical significance: Unknown. Notes: Beron (2020) reviewed the geographic distribution and host records of this species.	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
93743C6EFFA35705FF648C01FDDB4986.taxon	materials_examined	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.	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
93743C6EFFA35704FF648A75FC0F4FC0.taxon	materials_examined	Material: 1 female, ex male Rhinolophus landeri Martin, 1838, from Dhati-Welel National Park, 1 February 2014, leg. Sergei V. Kruskop (collection ID ZMMU S- 193052). Distribution: Many countries of Old World; in Africa distributed in Kenya, Sudan, South Africa, Ethiopia (this study, new record). Host species: Many bat species of families Vespertilionidae and Miniopteridae. Rhinolophidae: Rhinolophus landeri (this study, new record). Non-chiropteran host: human (Péter et al., 2021). Medical significance: – associated pathogens – Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Hornok et al. 2019), Babesia crassa, Babesia venatorum, Babesia canis, Theileria capreoli, Theileria orientalis, Theileria sp. (Hornok et al. 2016), Mycoplasma spp. (Corduneanu et al. 2023).	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
93743C6EFFA25708FF648E2DFE2B4F65.taxon	materials_examined	Material: 2 larvae, ex female Mops midas, from Amhara, North Gondar Zone, Bermil, Alatish National Park 12 ° 23 ' N, 35 ° 44 ' E, 562 m asl, 9 April 2010, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S- 189546). Distribution: Palaearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical realms; recorded in Africa from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Sahara (Sándor et al., 2021), Ethiopia (this study, new record). Host species: Many bat species in families Vespertilionidae (especially Pipistrellus spp.), Rhinolophidae, Miniopteridae, Rhinopomatidae, Emballonuridae and Pteropodidae. Family Molossidae: Tadarida aegyptiaca, Tadarida teniotis, Mops midas (this study, new record). Non-chiropteran host: human, Canis familiaris, Picus viridis (Sándor et al. 2021). Medical significance: – associated pathogens – Issyk-Kul' virus, Sokuluk virus (Lvov et al. 1973), Keterah virus (Varma & Converse 1976), soft tick bunyavirus (Oba et al. 2015), TBEV (Orlova & Kononova 2018), Ehrlichia sp. Av (Lv et al. 2018), Ehrlichia sp. AvBat (Socolovschi et al. 2012), Bartonella sp. la 23, Bartonella sp. lv 76 (Hornok et al. 2019), Rickettsia raoulti, Rickettsia rickettsia (Zhao et al. 2020), Rickettsia sp. AvBat (subspecies of the spotted fever group), Rickettsia lusitaniae, Rickettsia africae - like sp. (Hornok et al. 2019), Rickettsia sp. AvBat (subspecies of the spotted fever group) (Socolovschi et al. 2012), Coxiella burnetii (Zhmaeva et al. 1966), Ehrlichia canis group (Ehrlichia sp. AvBat), Borrelia sp. CPB 1 (Socolovschi et al. 2012), Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. (Hubbard et al. 1998), Borrelia afzelii (Wilhelmsson 2018), Babesia vesperuginis (Lv et al. 2018), Babesia venatorum (Lv et al. 2018).	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
93743C6EFFA25708FF648E2DFE2B4F65.taxon	discussion	Discussion The bat species from which parasites were collected for this study belong to extremely widespread genera and are themselves relatively widespread within Africa. Rhinolophus landeri is one of the most widespread African Rhinolophus species (Brown & Dunlop 1997). Myotis bocagei has a scattered but wide distribution range from Yemen to Angola and Liberia (Patterson et al. 2019). Mops pumilus and M. midas inhabit most of sub-Saharan Africa and also Madagascar (Bouchard 1998; Dunlop 1999). Miniopterus arenarius has a quite limited range, covering the southern Arabian Peninsula and northern East Africa (Wilson & Mittermeyer 2019), but it appears to be part of a complex of forms related to M. natalensis (Naidoo et al. 2016) that is distributed across much of Africa. The parasites associated with these bat species, and the pathogens they carry, may circulate widely across the African continent. It is worth adding that both Mops species are known to inhabit human buildings (Dunlop 1999; Jackson et al. 2023), increasing the medical relevance of studying their ectoparasites. Bats and their ectoparasites carry pathogens with the potential to infest humans in the Palaearctic Region (Sándor et al. 2024) and in China (Han et al. 2021), and we expect the same to be true in other areas. The ranges of the collected gamasid ectoparasites within Africa almost coincide with the ranges of their host species, while the ixodid and argasid ticks are distributed much more widely. We have sampled only a small proportion of the bat species that occur in Ethiopia, but even this limited collection provided a substantial increase in the number of ticks and mites, and added some new host records. We anticipate that the number of ectoparasite species will increase quickly when a more extensive survey is conducted. Acknowledgements Financial support of this this study was provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the frames Agreement no. 075 - 15 - 2023 - 591. The work of SVK was carried out in line with State theme of scientific work of the ZMMU (No 121032300105 - 0).	en	Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A., Vyalykh, Ivan V. (2024): New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 79: 150-159, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
