Spinturnix helvetiae Deunff et al., 1986

Sachanowicz, Konrad, Krištofík, Ján & Ciechanowski, Mateusz, 2014, Spinturnicid mites of bats in Albania - host spectrum and morphometrics as a tool of species separation, Journal of Natural History 48 (43 - 44), pp. 2661-2674 : 2668-2669

Spinturnix helvetiae Deunff et al., 1986

Records: Qafa e Malit III, 18 September 2005, 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀ from N. leisleri .

Female measurements (n = 1): idiosoma 1115 long, 788 wide; dorsal shield 806 long, 450 wide; sternal shield 158 long, 84 wide.

Spinturnix helvetiae was suggested to be a subspecies of S. acuminata ( Uchikawa et al. 1994) or might be conspecific with this taxon, from which it seems not to differ genetically ( Bruyndonckx et al. 2009). It occurs mainly on N. leisleri , but was occasionally found on M. daubentonii ( Krištofík and Danko 2012) . The species is probably distributed across the whole of central Europe

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Figure 3. Scatter plot of PC1 and PC 2 in two species pairs: □ S. acuminata males; Δ S. nobleti males; ▀ S. acuminata females; ▾ S. nobleti females; ○ S. kolenatii females; + S. mystacina females. ( Deunff et al. 1986), in Belarus and Moldova ( Stanyukovich 1997). From N. leisleri we obtained only five mites (prevalence 22.2%, mean intensity 2.5, relative density 0.6).