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 Hoplopleura affinis ( Burmeister, 1839 ) Pediculus affinis Burmeister, 1839 : genus Pediculus , Species 10. Records in Baltic States : Latvia ( Lapina 1959 ; Grinbergs 1961d ; 1980b ), Lithuania ( Likevičienė 1957 ; Jezerskienė 1974 ; Arnastauskienė et al . 1989 ; current study). Hosts : S . araneus (LV) , A . agrarius (LV, LT) , A . flavicollis (LV, LT) , M . minutus (LV) , M . musculus (LT) , C . glareolus (LT) , M . agrestis (LT) . Host specificity : highly specific parasite of A . agrarius ( S i = 0.99). European distribution : Belarus , Bulgaria , Croatia , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Moldova , Poland , Romania , Russia , Slovakia , Ukraine , the United Kingdom ( Smetana 1961 ; Blagoveshchensky 1964 ; Wegner 1966 ; Beaucournu 1968 ; Voicu & Straton 1968 ; Piotrowski 1970 ; Kováčik 1984 ; Krištofik & Dudich 2000b ; Manilla 2003 ; Haitlinger 2011 ; 2015 ; Vas et al . 2012 ; Krčmar & Trilar 2017 ; Maaz et al . 2018 ). Notes : species is present in the Estonian database https://elurikkus.ee/ without information about its host species.