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Mites and internal parasites associated with the common dung beetle Geotrupes (Anoplotrupes) stercorosus (Hartmann in Scriba, 1791) in Poland

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Common dung beetles collected in the “Sobieski Forest” (eastern border of Warsaw suburbs) were examined for the occurrence and prevalence of infections or infestations with intestinal parasites and phoretic mites in relation to soil characteristics and quality of the forest habitat. Endoparasitic fauna was represented by gregarines Didymophyes paradoxa, microsporidians Plistophora geotrupina and cysticerkoids of 2 tapeworms - Ditestolepis diaphana and Staphylocystis furcate. Prevalence of these infections was higher for beetles collected from rich habitats. Acarofauna was represented by hypopodes of Sancassania geotruporum (Astigmatina, Acaridae) and the following taxa of mesostigmatic mites: Alliphis halleri, Macrocheles glaber, Parasitus coleop-tratorum and unidentified juvenile Laelapidae representative. Mites were most abundant in June, July and September. They were only slightly more numerously found on dung beetles from the rich habitats. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling, MDS (2D stress = 0.13) revealed significant similarities in the distribution of mite taxa between poor and rich sites and among the investigated months (June, July and September).

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    Teresa Sulgostowska & Krzysztof Klimaszewski

  2. Department of Parasitology, Medical University of Silesia, Jednósci 8, 41-218, Sosnowiec, Poland

    Krzysztof Solarz

  3. Department of Ecology, University of Silesia, Bankowa 9, 40-007, Katowice, Poland

    Grażyna Madej

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Sulgostowska, T., Solarz, K., Madej, G. et al. Mites and internal parasites associated with the common dung beetle Geotrupes (Anoplotrupes) stercorosus (Hartmann in Scriba, 1791) in Poland. Acta Parasit. 60, 622–630 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/ap-2015-0088

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