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 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.1 1175-5326 8426731 08ECB672-2783-4EF5-AB96-CFB4EF0EAEB0 Hystrichopsylla talpae ( Curtis, 1826 ) Pulex talpae Curtis, 1826 : plate 114. Records in Baltic States : Estonia ( Vilbaste 1959 ; Daiter 1961a ; Pototski 1989 ; 1990b ; Pototski et al . 1993 ), Latvia ( Eglitis 1957 ; Lapina 1959 ; 1960 ; 1961 ; Grinbergs 1960 ; 1961a ; 1961b ; 1961d ; 1964 ; 1976 ; Andersone 1963 ), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957 ; Podėnaitė 1960 ; Kadytė 1964 ; Jezerskienė 1974 ; Lipatova & Paulauskas 2010 ; current study). Hosts : N . fodiens (EE) , S . araneus (LV) , A . agrarius (EE, LV, LT) , A . flavicollis (EE, LV, LT) , M . minutus (LV) , M . musculus (LV, LT) , R . norvegicus (LV) , A . oeconomus (LT) , A . amphibius (LV) , C . glareolus (EE, LV, LT) , M . agrestis (EE, LV, LT) , M . arvalis (EE, LV, LT) . Host specificity : generalist parasite ( S i = 0.27). European distribution : Austria , Belarus , Belgium , Bulgaria , Czech Republic , Denmark , France , Germany , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Luxemburg , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Russia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Switzerland , Ukraine , the United Kingdom ( Niewiadomska 1953 ; Radvan 1959 ; Smit 1967 ; 1969 ; Jurík 1968 ; Adamovich 1971 ; Mahnert 1972 ; Weidner 1973 ; George 1974 ; Beaucournu & Gosalbez 1975 ; Chikilevskaya 1977 ; Haitlinger 1977b ; 2011 ; 2015 ; Brelih & Petrov 1978 ; Libois 1979 ; Dudich 1984a ; Vashchonok 1996 ; Scherf 2000 ; Walter 2000 ; Iori et al . 2003 ; Striese et al . 2012 ; Kutzscher & Weber 2015 ; Maaz et al . 2018 ).