Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 20. (Budapest, 1987)
Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from small mammals in Hungary* Dr. Michal AMBROS Bureau of Protected Landscape Area Ponitrie, Nitra, Czechoslovakia "Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from small mammals in Hungary". - Ambros, M. - Parasit. hung., 20: 99 - 107. 1987. ABSTRACT. A rich material of parasitic mites of the suborder Mesostigmata was collected from the fur of 19 species of small mammals (insectivores and rodents) in 14 localities in Hungary between 1981 and 1985. A total of 4 020 mites were identified as belonging to 39 species of 6 families: Parasitidae, Veigaiaidae, Aceoseidae, Rhodacaridae , Macrochelidae, Dermanyssidae. Species new to the fauna of Hungary include Cyrtolaelaps minor , Laelaps jettmari , and Lae laps micromydis. KEY WORDS. Acari, Mesostigmata, small mammals: Insectivora, Rodentia, host-parasite relation, faunistics, Hungary. Small mammals (insectivores and rodents) were collected in several localities of Hungary in 1981-1985 with the aim of investigating the ectoparasite fauna in the fur of the collected specimens. This report is concerned especially with the parasitic mites from the suborder Mesostigmata. This group of ectoparasites living in the fur and nests of small mammals is fairly well-known in Hungary. Information on the fauna of parasitic mite species from Hungarian territory has been published by several authors in their papers: BALOGH (1938), BALOGH and ROSTÁS (1955), MAHUNKA and MOLNOS (1962), BERON (1969), MRCIAK (1979), HAITLINGER (1979), MOLNOS (1981), AMBROS (1981, 1984). Further data on non-parasitic, freeliving forms of gamasid mites are known from the works of S ZALA Y (1931), ERŐSS and MAHUNKA (1971), and KANDIL (1983). A total of 1 274 host animals were caught in the above period in Hungary, belonging to 19 insectivorous and rodent species: Talpa europaea, Sorex araneus, Sorex minutus, Neomys fodiens, Neomys anomalus, Crocidura leucodon, Crocidura suaveolens, Glis glis, Muscardinus avelïanarius, Micromys minutus, Âpodemus syïvaticus, Ápodemus flavicollis, Apodemus agrárius," ÁVvic'ola tëi-restris , Mus mus cuius, Clethrionomys glareoïus", Pitymys subterranëûs7"Microtus" agr estis, Microtus oeconomus, Microtus arvalis. Ä total of 4 020" mites was côîfectëdYrom'thVfur of thë'âbove" mammals "identified as belonging to 39 species of six families of the suborder Mesostigmata (Table 1). Report No. 27 from the project "Complex parasitological studies on small mammal populations", a co-operation between the Zoological Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and the Center of Biological-Ecological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava.
