A catalogue of spinturnicid species (Mesostigmata: Spinturnicidae) from Brazil: distribution, host-specificity, and new locality records

ABSTRACT

Spinturnicid mites are ectoparasites exclusively of bats. Herein, we provide a comprehensive catalogue of spinturnicid species recorded in Brazil focusing on their distribution nationwide. This catalogue listed 16 spinturnicid species into four different genera, and a key for the genera recorded in Brazil. Also, it provides new locality records for four species: Cameronieta almaensis Almeida, Gettinger and Gardner, Periglischrus acutisternus Machado-Allison, Periglischrus caligus Kolenati, and Periglischrus iheringi Oudemans. Additionally, this study includes a detailed discussion on the host-specificity and molecular data of these mites.

KEYWORDS:

• Mites
• ectoparasite
• bats
• Chiroptera
• new records

Acknowledgments

To Gabrielle Ribeiro de Andrade, Maria Cristina Ferreira do Rosário from the Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, for technical contribution; To Valeria Castilho Onofrio for giving access to Acarological Collection of the Instituto Butantan.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico under the Grant [CNPq no. 402575/2021-0 (FCJ)], the Productivity Grant to MRA [CNPq Process #303701/2021-8], the Productivity Grant to DMB-B [CNPq Process #303802/2021-9], as well as the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, under the grant FAPESP [no. 2017/01416-7 (RB-S), 2018/24667-8 (RB-S), 2020/11755-6 (RB-S), 2011/06810-9 (GSS), 2021/06758-9 (ACC-S), 2020/07826-5 (ACC), 2022/05615-2 (MRA), and 2019/19853-0 (FCJ)]; and also, was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – [Finance Code 001].