L. Forró - É. Murai szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 5. 1989 (Budapest, 1989)
Murai, É.: Ceratozetes gracilis (Michael, 1884) (Acari: Oribatida), an intermediate host of Vampirolepis asymmetrica (Janicki, 1904) (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae)
V. straminea parasitizes Cricetus cricetus in Eastern Hungary at a high density, and sometimes occurs in Mus musculus spicilegus in Western Hungary, In Mus musculus and Rattus spp. it has a cosmopolitan spreading fand also in laboratory animals). In Europe under natural conditions definitive hosts are Muridae and Cricetidae species: Apodemus agrarius, A. flavicollis, A. syivaticus, Micromys minutus, Mus musculus and ssp., Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus, Cricetus cricetus, C. frumentarius, Cricetulus migratorius , Mesocricetus auritus (BAER and TENORA 1970; ERHARDOVÁ 1955; FE LIU 1980, FELIU, MASCOMA and MURAI 1985; GENOV 1984; JOYEUX and BAER 1936; TENORA and MURAI 1970; VAUCHEP and HUNKELER 1967; WAHL 1967). In Africa BAER and HUNKELER registrated V. straminea from Mus , Mastomys , Arvicanthis, Uranomys and Dendromus species (HUNKELER 1974). BAER and TENORA (1970) presented a detailed list of synonyms and made some corrections of faunistical data in Czechoslovakia. The authors cited in this paper, accepted their opinion after 1970, but the occurrence of V. straminea in Arvicolidae species, appears in recent literature (e. g. FELIU 1980). We propose, that the host-spectrum of V. straminea in this questionable group should be revised. A CKNO W LE DG E ME N TS We are very grateful to Prof. Sándor MAHUNKA for he has concerned the tapeworm larvae occurring in mites during his studies. For the present study he found important evidence of the life-cycle of Vampirolepis asymmetrica. Many thanks to Dr. Lajos ZOMBORI, hymenopterologist, who has collected Mus musculus specimens for parasitological studies around his house in the Buda Hills for years. With his help we could prove the occurrence of Vampirolepis straminea, as a parasite of Muridae species, for the first time from the Hungarian fauna. We wish to thank Prof. Béla LOVAS for his kind assistance with the photographs. REFERENCES BAER, J.G. and TENORA, F. (1970): Some species of Hymenolepis (Cestoidea) from rodents and from Primates. - Acta Sei. Nat. Brno, 4: 1-32. ERHARDOVÁ, B. (1955): Hemintofauna hrabosu a mysí Tatranského Národního Parku (Die Helminthofauna der mäuseartigen Nagetiere des Nationalparks in der Hohen Tatra) (In Czech with German summary). - Zool. ent. Listy, 4: 353-364. FELIU, C. (1980): Contribucion al conoeimiento de la helmintofauna de micromamiferos Ibericos. Helmintos de Gliridae y Muridae (Rodentia). - Thesis doctoral, Universidad de Barcelona, Facultad de Farmacia, 556 pp. FELIU, C, GISBERT, J. and REY, I. (1985): Presencia de Hymenolepis asymmetrica Janicki, 1904 (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) en roedores ibericos. Primer hallazgo del helminto en Arvicola sapidus Miller, 1908 (Arvicolidae). - Rev. Ibér. Parasitol., 45 : 381-382. FELIU, C., MAS-COMA, S. and GALLEGO, J. (19 84) : Contribu cion al conoeimiento de la helmintofauna de micromamiferos Ibericos. VIII, Nuevos datos sobre parasitos de Apodemus syivaticus Linnaeus, 1758 (Rodentia: Muridae). - Rev. Ibér. Parasitol. , 44: 109-128. FELIU, C, MAS-COMA, S. and MURAI, É. (1985): On commensal and wild forms of SouthEuropean Mus (Rodentia: Muridae) from the helminthological point of view. - Acta zool. Fennica, 170 : 211-212. GENOV, T. (19 84): Helmints of insectivorous mammals and rodents in Bulgaria (In Bulgarian with English summary). - Publ. House Bulgarian Acad. Sei. Sofia, pp. 348. HUNKELER, P. (1973): Les Cestodes parasites des petits mammifères (Rongeurs et Insectivores) de Cote-d'Ivoire et de HauteVolta. - Revue suisse Zool., 80: 809-930.
