Bat ectoparasites: chigger mites (Trombiculidae), ticks (Ixodidae and Argasidae), and bugs (Cimicidae) in the Eastern Palaearctic.
Autor: | Kazakov DV; Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), University of Tyumen, Volodarskogo, 6, 625003, Tyumen, Russia. kazakov.denis.95@mail.ru., Khasnatinov MA; Federal State Public Science Institution 'Scientific Centre for Family Health and Human Reproduction Problems', Timiryazeva, 16, Irkutsk, 664003, Russia., Antonovskaia AA; Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1-12, Moscow, 119234, Russia., Gorobeyko UV; Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 100-Letiya Vladivostoka, Vladivostok, 159, 690022, Russia. |
---|---|
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Zdroj: | Parasitology research [Parasitol Res] 2024 Jan 06; Vol. 123 (1), pp. 83. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 06. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00436-023-08093-x |
Abstrakt: | Nine species-level taxa of bat ectoparasites, three chigger mites (Trombiculidae), three hard (Ixodidae), and one soft tick (Argasidae) species, as well as two bug (Cimicidae) species from nine bat species hosts were detected in the Eastern Palaearctic. Trombiculid larvae of Leptotrombidium schlugerae, Leptotrombidium album, and Ascoschoengastia latyshevi were first recorded on bats in the temperate zone of eastern Russia. L. schlugerae was more abundant than A. latyshevi in the same study sites in Eastern Siberia, and the main hosts of both chigger species were Plecotus ognevi and Eptesicus nilssonii. Ixodid ticks Dermacentor marginatus, Ixodes simplex, and Ixodes sp. were sampled from bats in Kazakhstan, the Far East, and Eastern Siberia, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis based on Cox1, 16S rDNA, and ITS2 sequences of I. simplex showed that the specimens from the Far East grouped into a clade distributed in the Eastern Palaearctic and India. In turn, the specimen of Ixodes sp. from Eastern Siberia was most closely related to Ixodes soricis and Ixodes angustus with p-distance of 9.8-10.7% (Cox1), suggesting that this tick probably belongs to a new species. Argas vespertilionis larvae were collected from three widespread bat species in Kazakhstan. Two bug species, Cimex pipistrelli and Cimex aff. lectularius, were recorded in the Far East and Eastern Siberia, respectively. Specimens from Transbaikalia were morphologically identified as Cimex lectularius. However, they differed from the latter by 12.5-12.9% of Cox1 sequences, indicating that C. aff. lectularius may be a new species. (© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.) |
Databáze: | MEDLINE |
Externí odkaz: |