Ectoparasitic mites, ticks (Acari: Trombidiformes, Mesostigmata, Ixodida) and insects (Insecta: Psocodea, Siphonaptera) of ground-dwelling small mammals in the Baltic States. An annotated checklist Author Kitrytė, Neringa Author Baltrūnaitė, Laima text Zootaxa 2023 2023-10-06 5353 1 1 46 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1 journal article 272240 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1 decbfba2-64aa-42c9-9c98-bc922e543366 1175-5326 8426731 08ECB672-2783-4EF5-AB96-CFB4EF0EAEB0 Pediculus humanus capitis de Geer, 1778 Pediculus (humanus capitis) cinereus de Geer, 1778: 67 . Records in Baltic States : Latvia ( Grinbergs 1961b ; 1980b ). Hosts : M . musculus (LV) . European distribution : Belgium , Croatia , Czech Republic , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Malta , Moldova , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Russia , Serbia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Ukraine , the United Kingdom ( Brinck 1950 ; Blagoveshchensky 1964 ; Wegner 1966 ; Piotrowski 1970 ; Büttiker & Mahnert 1978 ; Gratz 1997 ; Skirnisson 2001 ; Savona-Ventura 2002 ; Manilla 2003 ; O’Connor et al . 2005 ; Willems et al . 2005 ; Kurhanova 2006 ; Light et al . 2008 ; Vogels et al . 2012 ; Vas et al . 2012 ; Krčmar & Trilar 2017 ; Mihailov et al . 2019 ; Aalto-Korte et al . 2020 ; Fox et al . 2020 ). Notes : The detection of P . humanus capitis on a small mammal was probably accidental, since this louse species is highly specific parasite of humans ( Durden & Musser 1994 ).