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Fur mites of the family Listrophoridae (Acariformes: Sarcoptoidea) associated with South American sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)

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Six species of 3 genera belonging to the fur mite family Listrophoridae were recorded on skins of South American rodents of the cricetid subfamily Sigmodontinae housed in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Munich, Germany). Among them, Amlistrophorus geoxus sp. nov. from Geoxus valdivianus from Chile is described as a new for science, and males of Prolistrophorus amazonicus amazonicus Fain, 1971 are recorded for the first time. The full generic status for the subgenus Amlistrophorus of the genus Prolistrophorus proposed by Fain et al. (1996) is not supported, and Prolistrophorus musculinus Fain, 1973 stat. nov. (formerly a subspecies of P. amazonicus) from Mus musculus (Rodentia: Muridae) from Suriname is raised to species status. New hosts are recorded for the following species: Prolistrophorus argentinus (Hirst, 1921) from Holochilus brasiliensis and H. chacarius from Argentina, P. amazonicus from Calomys callosus from Argentina and Bolivia, C. laucha and C. musculinus from Argentina, P. akodon Fain and Lukoschus, 1982 from Akodon montensis from Argentina, P. nectomys Fain, 1971 from Nectomys palmipes from Peru and Melanomys caliginosus from Panama, and Sclerolistrophorus oxymycteris Fain, 1976 from Oryzomys laticeps from Brazil.

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  1. Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland

    Bożena Sikora

  2. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andre V. Bochkov

  3. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1079, USA

    Andre V. Bochkov

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Sikora, B., Bochkov, A.V. Fur mites of the family Listrophoridae (Acariformes: Sarcoptoidea) associated with South American sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). Acta Parasit. 57, 388–396 (2012). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-012-0046-1

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Keywords

  • Amlistrophorus geoxus sp. nov.
  • fur-mites
  • Listrophoridae
  • Cricetidae
  • Sigmodontinae
  • South America