Ácaros ectoparasitos de morcegos no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Bat mites and bat chiggers of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Up to now, 49 species of bat mites and chiggers are recorded in Brazil, divided into ten families and three suborders. To verify the occurrence of the bat mites and chiggers species in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, specimens deposited at the "Coleção Zoológica de Referência da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul" were examined and queried information available in literature. It was found 25 species of these mites, belonging to six families from bats in Mato Grosso do Sul. All species are a new geographic record for the state. Additionally, a checklist of bat mites and chiggers, with their respective hosts and states that occur in Brazil is presented.

A new locality record for Radfordiella desmodi Radovsky, 1967 (Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae) parasitizing the vampire bat in Brazil

“…Radfordiella desmodi was recorded parasitizing the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus (É. Geoffroy, 1810) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro (Azevedo et al 2002;Silva et al 2017;Lourenço et al 2020). Two other records for this species include one in the state of Rio de Janeiro parasitizing Seba's short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata (L., 1758) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) (Almeida et al 2011), and another in the state of Minas Gerais, parasitizing the tropical big-eared brown bat Histiotus velatus (I. Geoffroy, 1824) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) (Moras et al 2013).…”

“…Radfordiella oudemansi, the type species of the genus Radfordiella, was originally described from the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, parasitizing D. rotundus (Fonseca 1948). In Brazil, there is only one other record for this species in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, collected from the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor Wagner, 1843 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) (Silva et al 2017). Outside Brazil, R. oudemansi has been recorded in Venezuela (Saunders 1975), Mexico (Colín-Martínez et al 2018), Trinidad (Zhang & Uchikawa 1994), and in the US Virgin Islands (Reeves et al 2006).…”