During 1995, 16 species of arthropods and 2 species of filarioids, totaling 1 287 specimens were collected from 64 wild rodents captured in the Hudson Natural Reserve, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Infestation parameters and indexes were analyzed. Host specific richness was S = 6, diversity H = 1.48, and relative density RDI = 40%. High values of parasite species richness and diversity were found on...

abstract the laelapidae is a large family with worldwide distribution. many laelapids are ectoparasitic on small mammals or associated with arthropods, although some species are free living and predators especially in soil habitat; also they are common in stored products. during three years (2007-2009) of faunestic survey, samples were collected from different habitats such as soil, plant litte...

Pseudoparasitus (Gymnolaelaps) annectans (Womersley) and two new species are assigned to a new genus, Nidilaelaps. Nidilaelaps has a number of important differences from Pseudoparasitus and other genera that Nidilaelaps annectans has been previously assigned to, but shares characters with Australopapuan vertebrate-associated taxa, particularly the “Androlaelaps” ulysses species group and Laelap...

during 1999-2002, in the course of a faunistic survey of oribatid mites of iran, twelve species of higher or brachypyline oribatid mites (brachypylina) belonging to eleven gen-era and seven families from various localities of iran were collected: aleurodamaeus* se-tosus (aleurodamaeidae*); licnobelba* alestensis (licnobelbidae*); licnodamaeus fissu-ratus, l. pulcherrimus (licnodamaeidae); damae...

Eight species of Dactylogyridae collected from the barrages of the Nile River near Cairo, Egypt, are reported from the external surfaces of Clarias lazera Cuvier and Valenciennes as follows: Quadriacanthus clariadis Paperna, 1961, Q. aegypticus El-Naggar and Serag, 1986, Q. allobychowskiella Paperna, 1979, Q. bagme Paperna, 1979, Q. papernai sp. n., Q. ashuri sp. n., Q. numidus sp. n., and Quad...