Rodents (Rodentia), due to their number and species diversity, are important elements of natural ecosystems. Some species of rodents are widely distributed. Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766) (Rodentia, Gliridae) is one such species. An overview of the parasites, bacteria and viruses of G. glis inhabiting the Western Palearctic is given.
Species |
Distribution |
Host Range |
Medical & Veterinary Significance |
Country |
References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Family Picornoviridae Encephalocarditis virus (EMCV) |
E |
small rodents |
cause myocarditis, diabetes mellitus, reproductive disorders and nervous system damage |
Italy |
|
family Polyomaviridae Polyomavirus |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Germany |
[27] |
Family Bunyaviridae Hantaan orthohantavirus (HTNV) |
E |
small rodents |
main causative agent of Korean hemorrhagic fever in humans |
Slovenia |
[28] |
Dobrava-Belgrade orthohantavirus (DOBV) |
E |
Apodemus mice |
cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome |
Serbia |
[29] |
Species |
Distribution |
Host Range |
Medical & Veterinary Significance |
Country |
References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Family Borreliaceae Borrelia afzelii Canica et al. 1994 |
E |
rodents, |
causative agent of Lime disease (LD) |
Croatia |
[34] |
dormice |
Germany |
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Borrelia garinii Baranton et al., 1992 |
E |
birds |
causative agent of LD |
Germany |
[36] |
Borrelia bavariensis Margos et al., 2009 |
E |
rodents, dormice |
causative agent of LD |
Germany |
[36] |
Borrelia miyamotoi Fukunaga et al., 1995 |
E |
dormice |
— |
Germany |
[36] |
Family Rickettsiaceae Rickettsia typhi (Wolbach and Todd, 1920) |
C |
rodents |
causative agent of murine typhus, an endemic human typhus |
Slovenia |
[39] |
Family Yersiniaceae Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann, 1896) |
C |
wild and domestic animals (mainly rodents) |
plague pathogen |
Europe |
[40] |
Family Eimeriidae Eimeria gliris Musaev and Veysov, 1961 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Azerbaijan |
[41] |
Family Francisellaceae Francisella tularensis (McCoy and Chapin 1912) |
H |
rodents, humans |
pathogen of gram-negative coccobacillus, causative agent of tularemia |
Switzerland |
[42] |
Species |
Distribution |
Host Range |
Medical & Veterinary Significance |
Country |
References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Family Dicrocoeliidae Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Rudolphi, 1819) |
C |
mammals (mainly ungulates) |
causative agent of dicroceliosis of livestock |
Belarus |
[48] |
Lyperosomum armenicum (Stcherbakova, 1942) |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Armenia |
[49] |
Belarus |
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Family Brachylaimidae Brachylaima recurva (Dujardin, 1845) |
P |
small rodents |
— |
Russia |
[52] |
Family Plagiorchiidae Plagiorchis elegans (Rudolphi, 1802) |
H |
birds, small mammals, reptiles |
— |
Belarus |
|
Family Lecithodendriidae Lecithodendrium semen (Kirschenblatt, 1941) |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Belarus |
|
Family Diplostomidae Alaria alata (Goeze, 1782), msc. |
C |
amphibians, reptiles, small mammals |
causative agent of alariasis of farmed fur animals |
Belarus |
[54] |
Family Hymenolepididae Armadolepis myoxi (sensu stricto) (Rudolphi, 1819) (syn.: Hymenolepis sulcata (von Linstow, 1879)) |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Switzerland |
[55] reported as H. sulcata |
Slovakia |
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Croatia |
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Hungary |
[63] reported as H. sulcata |
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Spain |
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Germany |
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Armadolepis longisoma Makarikov, Stakheev and Tkach, 2018 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Russia |
|
Armadolepis genovi Makarikov and Georgiev, 2020 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Bulgaria |
|
Armadolepis sp. |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Russia |
[52] reported as H. myoxi |
Hymenolepididae sp. |
E |
— |
— |
Moldova |
|
Belarus |
[50] reported as H. horrida and Rodentolepis straminea (Goeze, 1782) |
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Azerbaijan |
[75] reported as Hymenolepis diminuta (Rudolphi, 1819) |
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Ukraine |
[76] reported as R. straminea |
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Slovakia |
[59] reported as Rodentolepis sp. |
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Family Mesocestoididae Mesocestoides lineatus (Goeze, 1782), tetrathyridia |
P |
reptiles, small mammals |
cause mesocestidosis in humans, carnivores |
Italy |
[77] |
Family Capillariidae Pterothominx sadovskoi (Morozov, 1956) (syn.: Thominx sadovskoi Morozov, 1956; Armocapillaria sadovskoi (Morozov, 1956)) |
P |
small rodents |
— |
Belarus |
|
Family Heligmonellidae Paraheligmonina gracilis (Leuckart, 1842) (syn.: Heligmosomum gracile (Leuckart, 1842); Longistriata schulzi Schachnasarova, 1949; Longistriata elpatievskii Schachnasarova, 1949) |
WP |
Glis glis |
— |
Russia |
|
Belarus |
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Germany |
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Bulgaria |
[71] |
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Ukraine |
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Azerbaijan |
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Armenia |
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Croatia |
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Spain |
[64] |
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Italy, France |
[79] |
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Slovakia |
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Family Rictulariidae Rictularia cristata (Frölich, 1802) |
E |
small rodents |
— |
Central Europe |
|
Rictularia amurensis Schulz, 1927 |
P |
small rodents |
— |
Belarus |
Note: E—Europe, C—Cosmopolitan, H—Holarctic, P—Palaearctic, WP—Western Palaearctic.
Species |
Distribution |
Host Range |
Medical & Veterinary Significance |
Country |
References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Family Hoplopleuridae Schizophthirus gliris Blagoveshtchensky, 1965 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Poland, Bulgaria, North Makedonia |
|
Schizophthirus pleurophaeus (Burmeister 1839) |
WP |
dormice |
— |
West Europe, Belarus |
|
Hungary |
[90] |
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Family Cimicidae Oeciacus hirundinis (Lamarck, 1816) |
P |
birds (mainly swallows) |
— |
Slovenia |
[91] |
Slovakia |
[92] |
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Family Pulicidae Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 |
C |
mammals (including humans), birds |
vector of plague bacteria Yersinia pestis; intermediate host of the cucumber tapeworm Dipylidium caninum (Linnaeus, 1758), which cause helminthiasis in dogs and cats |
Slovenia |
|
Family Ceratophyllidae Amalareus penicilliger (Grube, 1851) |
P |
forest rodents |
— |
Ukraine |
[95] |
Leptopsylla taschenbergi (Wagner, 1898) |
P |
forest rodents, insectivores |
— |
Armenia |
[96] |
Russia |
[97] |
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Leptopsylla segnis (Schönherr, 1811) |
C |
house mice, rats |
vector of plague and tularemia |
Croatia |
|
Leptopsylla sciurobia (Wagner, 1934) |
P |
squirrels, dormice, Apodemus mice |
— |
Serbia |
|
Peromyscopsylla bidentata (Kolenati, 1863) |
P |
forest rodents |
— |
Ukraine |
|
Ceratophyllus sciurorum (Schrank, 1803) |
P |
squirrels, dormice |
vector of tularemia |
Russia |
|
Italy |
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Germany |
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Lithuania |
[108] |
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Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, North Macedonia |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Ukraine |
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Armenia |
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Belarus |
[112] |
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Moldova |
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Hungary |
[113] |
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Poland |
[114] |
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Bulgaria |
[115] |
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Ceratophyllus sciurorum sciurorum (Schrank, 1803) |
P |
squirrels, dormice |
— |
Slovenia |
[39] |
Germany |
[116] |
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Ceratophyllus rusticus Wagner, 1903 |
E |
birds |
— |
Slovenia |
|
Ceratophyllus carniolicus Brelih and Trilar, 2001 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Slovenia |
[117] |
Ceratophyllus hirundinis (Curtis, 1826) |
P |
birds |
— |
Slovenia |
|
Ceratophyllus gallinae (Schrank, 1803) |
C |
birds |
— |
Slovenia |
[94] |
Germany |
[116] |
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Lithuania |
[108] |
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Ceratophyllus borealis Rothschild, 1907 |
P, G |
birds |
— |
Russia |
[52] |
Ceratophyllus (Monopsyllus) sp. |
E |
— |
— |
Slovenia |
[94] |
Dasypsyllus gallinulae gallinulae (Dale, 1878) |
C |
birds |
— |
Slovenia |
[94] |
Megabothris turbidus (Rothschild, 1909) |
P |
forest rodents |
vector of viral hemorrhagic fever and tularemia |
Ukraine |
|
Germany |
[116] |
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Russia |
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Lithuania |
[108] |
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Megabothris walkeri (Rothschild, 1902) |
P |
forest rodents |
vector of tularemia |
Russia |
|
Myoxopsylla jordani Ioff and Argyropoulo, 1934 |
E, I |
dormice |
— |
Armenia |
[111] |
Russia |
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Georgia |
[118] |
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Myoxopsylla laverani (Rothschild, 1911) |
WP |
dormice |
— |
Germany |
|
France |
[119] |
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Nosopsyllus consimilis (Wagner, 1898) |
P |
forest rodents |
vector of plague and tularemia |
Armenia |
[96] |
Russia |
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Nosopsyllus fasciatus (Bosc d’Antic, 1800) |
C |
house mice, rats |
vector of the rat tapeworm H. diminuta |
Serbia |
[109] |
Orchopeas howardi (Baker, 1895) (syn.: Orchopeas wickhami (Baker, 1895)) |
N |
Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788 |
— |
UK |
[120] |
Family Ctenophthalmidae Ctenophthalmus wagneri Tiflov, 1927 |
P |
voles |
vector of tularemia |
Russia |
|
Ctenophthalmus monticola (Kohaut, 1904) |
E |
insectivores |
— |
Serbia |
|
Ctenophthalmus agyrtes (Heller, 1896) |
E |
Apodemus mice |
vector of tularemia |
Ukraine |
|
Germany |
[116] |
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Ctenophthalmus agyrtes ohridanus Wagner, 1939 |
E |
small mammals |
— |
Croatia |
|
Ctenophthalmus agyrtes wagnerianus Peus, 1950 |
E |
small mammals |
— |
Slovenia |
|
Ctenophthalmus proximus (Wagner, 1903) |
E |
small mammals |
— |
Russia |
[97] |
Ctenophthalmus assimilis (Taschenberg, 1880) |
P |
voles |
— |
Ukraine |
[95] |
Ctenophthalmus congener Rothschild, 1907 |
WP |
small mammals |
— |
Slovenia |
|
Ctenophthalmus nifetodes Wagner, 1933 |
E |
Dinaromys bogdanovi (V. and E. Martino, 1922) |
— |
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro |
|
Ctenophthalmus nifetodes brelihi Rosicky and Carnelutti, 1959 |
E |
Dinaromys bogdanovi |
— |
Slovenia |
|
Ctenophthalmus nifetodes tvrtkovici Brelih, 1986 |
E |
Dinaromys bogdanovi |
— |
Croatia |
|
Palaeopsylla soricis (Dale, 1878) |
P |
insectivores |
vector and reservoir of tularemia |
Germany Russia |
[116] |
Doratopsylla dasycnema dasycnema (Rothschild, 1897) |
P |
insectivores |
— |
former Yugoslavia |
[123] |
Germany |
[116] |
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Family Hystrichopsyllidae Hystrichopsylla talpae (Curtis 1826) |
P |
Talpa europaea |
vector and reservoir of tick-borne encephalitis |
Lithuania |
[108] |
Russia |
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Hystrichopsylla orientalis Smit, 1956 |
E |
small rodents, insectivores |
— |
Lithuania |
[124] |
Hystrichopsylla orientalis orientalis Smit, 1956 |
E |
small rodents, insectivores |
— |
Bosnia & Herzegovina |
|
Family Ischnopsyllidae Ischnopsyllus intermedius (Rothschild, 1898) |
E |
bats |
— |
Germany |
[116] |
Family Laelapidae Androlaelaps casalis (Berlese, 1887) (syn.: Haemolaelaps casalis (Berlese, 1887) |
C |
birds |
cause human dermatitis |
Moldova |
|
Ukraine |
[98] |
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Belarus |
[125] |
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Laelaps agilis C.L. Koch, 1836 |
P |
forest mice, insectivores, carnivores |
vector of plague, tularemia, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), tick-borne encephalitis, leptospirosis, brucellosis |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Eulaelaps stabularis (C.L. Koch, 1836) |
C |
small mammals, birds |
vector of tularemia, Q fever, tick-borne encephalitis, brucellosis, leptospirosis |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Myonyssus gigas (Oudemans, 1912) |
P |
rodents, insectivores, carnivores |
— |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Haemogamasus horridus Michael, 1892 |
WP |
rodents, insectivores, carnivores |
— |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Haemogamasus nidi Michael, 1892 |
H |
rodents, insectivores, carnivores |
vector of tularemia |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Haemogamasus pontiger (Berlese, 1904) |
C |
rodents, insectivores, carnivores |
— |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Family Hirstionyssidae Hirstionyssus sciurinus (Hirst, 1921) |
P |
Sciurus vulgaris, Glis glis |
vector of tularemia, tick-borne encephalitis, brucellosis, leptospirosis |
Russia |
|
Slovakia |
[126] |
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Hirstionyssus gliricolus Masan and Ambros, 2010 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Hirstionyssus paulisimilis Masan and Fenda, 2010 |
E |
Glis glis |
— |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Hirstionyssus sunci Wang, 1962 |
P |
small rodents, insectivores |
cause human dermatitis |
Slovakia |
[126] |
Family Glycyphagidae Labidophorus talpae Kramer, 1877 |
E |
moles |
— |
Europe |
[127] |
Family Ixodidae Ixodes (Ixodes) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
P |
mammals, birds |
vector of louping-ill virus of sheep, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis (tick-borne fever) of cattle; transmits Babesia spp., which causes Redwater fever in cattle and sheep |
Russia |
[52] |
Moldova |
[73] |
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Ukraine |
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Germany |
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Belarus |
[125] |
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Ixodes (Ixodes) acuminatus Neumann, 1901 (syn. I. redikorzevi Olenev, 1927) |
P |
rodents, insectivores, carnivores |
vector of LD, tularemia, Q fever |
Europe |
[130] |
Ixodes (Ixodes) laguri Olenev, 1929 (syn.: I. laguri colchicus Pomerantzev, 1948) |
P |
small rodents, hedgehogs, small carnivores |
vector of plague and tularemia |
Russia |
|
Ixodes (Exopalpiger) trianguliceps Birula, 1895 |
P |
rodents, insectivores, carnivores |
vector of LD |
Ukraine |
|
Germany |
[129] |
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Family Amblyommidae Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer, 1776) |
P |
mammals, insectivores, small carnivores |
vector of tick-borne Russian spring–summer encephalitis (TBRSSE), North Asian tick typhus |
Croatia |
[133] |
Family Bdellidae Bdella muscorum Ewing, 1909 |
H |
small mammals |
— |
Bulgaria |
[134] |
Cyta latirostris (Hermann, 1804) |
C |
small mammals |
— |
Bulgaria |
[134] |
Cyta coerulipes (Duges, 1834) |
C |
small mammals |
— |
Bulgaria |
[134] |
Family Myocoptidae Gliricoptes glirinus (Canestrini, 1895) (syn.: Myocoptes glirinus Can. 1895) |
WP |
Glis glis |
— |
Germany |
|
Italy |
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France |
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Belgium |
[138] |
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Armenia |
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Russia |
[140] |
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UK |
[135] |
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Family Myobiidae Radfordia (Graphiurobia) gliricola Vesmanis and Lukoschus, 1978 |
WP |
Glis glis |
— |
Germany |
[141] |
Russia |
[142] |
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Family Trombiculidae Ascoschoengastia latyshevi (Schluger, 1955) |
P |
rodents, insectivores, birds |
— |
Europe |
[143] |
Leptotrombidium europaeum (Daniel and Brelih, 1959) (syn.: Leptotrombidium intermedia europaea Daniel and Brelih, 1959 |
P |
rodents, insectivores |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
former Czechoslovakia, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Spain |
[144] |
Leptotrombidium sylvaticum Hushcha and Schluger, 1967 |
P |
rodents, insectivores |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
Ukraine |
|
Miyatrombicula muris (Oudemans, 1910) |
E |
rodents, insectivores |
— |
Central and South Europe, Russia |
[143] |
Neotrombicula vernalis (Willmann, 1942) |
WP |
rodents, insectivores |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
Austria |
[144] |
Neotrombicula austriaca Kepka, 1964 |
E |
rodents, insectivores |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
Bulgaria, Moldova |
[143] |
Neotrombicula inopinata (Oudemans, 1909) (syn.: N. germanica Willmann, 1952; N. autumnalis germanica (Willmann, 1952) |
WP |
rodents, insectivores, birds |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi, cause human trombiculiasis |
Germany |
|
Ukraine |
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Neotrombicula japonica (Tanaka, Kaiwa, Teramura & Kagaya, 1930) (syn.: Trombicula dubinini Schluger, 1955) |
P |
rodents, insectivores |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
Ukraine |
|
Neotrombicula nagayoi Sasa, Hayashi, Sato, Miura and Asahima, 1950 |
P |
rodents |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
Moldova |
|
Neotrombicula vulgaris (Schluger, 1955) |
E |
rodents |
vector of rickettsiosis tsutsugamushi |
Ukraine |
[110] |
Hirsutiella zachvatkini (Schluger, 1948) (syn.: Trombicula zachvatkini Schluger, 1948; Neotrombicula zachvatkini) |
P |
rodents |
vector of diseases causes by Rickettsia spp. |
Moldova |
|
Ukraine |
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Russia |
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Schoutedenichia sp. |
P |
— |
— |
Moldova |
[73] |
Note: E—Europe, C—Cosmopolitan, H—Holarctic, P—Palaearctic, WP—Western Palaearctic, G—Greenland, I—Iran, N—Nearctic.
This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/d14070562