Genus of mites
Laelaps is a genus of common parasitic mites in the family Laelapidae. Species, with their hosts, include:
- Laelaps acuminata – Oecomys[1]
- Laelaps agilis – Rattus[2]
- Laelaps alaskensis – Blarina, Clethrionomys, Craseomys, Dicrostonyx, Lemmiscus, Lemmus, Microtus, Mustela, Myotis, Napaeozapus, Ochrotomys, Ondatra, Onychomys, Parascalops, Peromyscus, Phenacomys, Poliocitellus, Sorex, Synaptomys, Thomomys[3]
- Laelaps boultoni – Neacomys, Sigmodon, Oligoryzomys, Oecomys, Heteromys[4]
- Laelaps castroi – Oligoryzomys[1]
- Laelaps clethrionomydis – Clethrionomys, Craseomys,[2] Microtus,[5]
- Laelaps conula – Rhipidomys[4]
- Laelaps crinigera – Oryzomyini[6]
- Laelaps dearmasi – Zygodontomys[4]
- Laelaps differens[1]
- Laelaps echidnina – Rattus,[4] Didelphis, Sigmodon,[5] Mus, Peromyscus, Sylvilagus[2]
- Laelaps evansi – Neofiber[5]
- Laelaps exceptionalis – "wild rat"[4]
- Laelaps flexa – Microryzomys[1]
- Laelaps giganteus (Berlese, 1918)[7] – Lemniscomys[8]
- Laelaps incilis – Microtus, Neotamias, Peromyscus[2]
- Laelaps kochi – Blarina, Clethrionomys, Corynorhinus, Craseomys, Dicrostonyx, Dipodomys, Glaucomys, Microtus, Mustela, Napaeozapus, Neotamias, Neovison, Neurotrichus, Ondatra, Peromyscus, Phenacomys, Sigmodon, Sorex, Synaptomys, Tamias, Zapus[3]
- Laelaps lavieri – Mus[9]
- Laelaps lemmi – Lemmus[2]
- Laelaps liberiensis – Mastomys[8]
- Laelaps manguinhosi – Holochilus, Nectomys, Neusticomys, and various other mammals[4]
- Laelaps mazzai – Calomys, Oligoryzomys[6]
- Laelaps multispinosa – Castor, Didelphis, Microtus, Mustela, Neovison, Ondatra, Peromyscus, Procyon[10]
- Laelaps muricola – Mastomys[8]
- Laelaps muris – Microtus, Ondatra[2]
- Laelaps navasi – Oryzomyini[6]
- Laelaps nuttalli – Mus, Ochrotomys, Peromyscus,[2] Rattus,[4] Sciurus[11]
- Laelaps ovata – Nephelomys[4]
- Laelaps paulistanensis – Rhipidomys, Oryzomyini[1]
- Laelaps pilifer – Oryzomyini[1]
- Laelaps spicata – Oryzomyini[6]
- Laelaps stupkai – Synaptomys[11]
- Laelaps surcomata – Rhipidomys[6]
- Laelaps thori[4]
Unnamed or unidentified species have been reported on Gerbilliscus robustus and Acomys wilsoni in Tanzania[8] and on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida and Georgia.[12]
- ^ a b c d e f Furman, 1972, p. 20
- ^ a b c d e f g Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10
- ^ a b Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Furman, 1972, p. 19
- ^ a b c Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20
- ^ a b c d e Furman, 1972, p. 18
- ^ For use of specific binomen L. giganteus in scientific literature, see:
- Zumpt & Till, 1958;
- Strandtman & Mitchell (1963);
- Matthee, Horak, et al. (2007);
- Nazarizadeh, Martinů, et al. (2022)
- ^ a b c d Stanley et al., 2007, p. 70
- ^ Stanley et al., 2007, p. 71
- ^ Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21
- ^ a b Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21
- ^ Worth, 1950, p. 330; Morlan, 1952, table 2