Host Relationships and Seasonal Abundance of Some Southwest Georgia Southwest Georgia Ectoparasites

First record of Parasitus americanus (Berlese, 1905) and Cornigamasus ocliferius Skorupski & Witaliński, 1997 (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) from Slovakia

“…Deutonymphs are frequently phoretic on beetles. It was described from Paraguay (Berlese 1905) and is widespread in South America (Athias-Henriot 1980, Postner 1953, USA (Morlan 1952), Australia (Womersley 1943), South Africa (AthiasHenriot 1980, Karg 1972 as Parasitus bituberosus Karg, 1972, Halliday 2005, Israel (Costa 1961 as P. fimetorum, revision by Karg 1972), Iran (Kazemi et al 2013), China (Lin et al 2015), Mongolia (Athias-Henriot 1980), Russia (Petrova 1982), and in several European countries -Spain (Athias-Henriot 1980, Navarro-Campos et al 2012), Germany (Karg 1972 as P. bituberosus), Ireland (Hyatt 1988), Bulgaria (Deltshev et al 1998), and Hungary (Ripka and Szabó 2010).…”

Parasitic mites of pocket gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) from Texas, USA

“…It has not been collected from pocket gophers from Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota (Morlan, 1952;Miller and Ward, 1960;Rapp, 1962;Rissky, 1962;Ubelaker and Downhower, 1965;Tuszynski and Whitaker, 1972;Spicka, 1981). Thus, it appears that the distribution of this mite is restricted to the western regions of North America and Central America.…”

“…Androlaelaps geomys (Strandtmann) is a mesostigrnatid mite that is an obligate parasite of the family Geomyidae and has been found on all genera within the family (Randolph and Eads, 1946;Strandtmann, 1949;Morlan, 1952;Miller and Ward, 1960;Rapp, 1962;Rissky, 1962;Tuszynski and Whitaker, 1972;Rust, 1973;Whitaker and Wilson, 1974;Bassols, 1979Bassols, , 1981Spicka, 1981;Whitaker et al, 1985). We collected A. geomys from both Geomys and Cratogeomys (Table 1) from various locations on the host's body.…”

The louse populations of some cricetid rodents

“…Worth (1950), working in Florida, found the same situation in the case of the cotton rat which was parasitized by H. hirsute, and the rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) which was parasitized by Hoplopleura quadridentata. Data presented by Morlan (1952) in regard to Polyplax spinulosa which he found on two species of Peromyscus as well as the normal hosts, the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the Norway rat (R. norvegicus), appear to contradict the assumption that the lice are host specific. These records seem, however, to be cases of contamination.…”