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1 May 2015 Fleas (Siphonaptera) in the Nests of Dormice (Gliridae: Rodentia) in Lithuania
I. Lipatova, M. Stanko, A. Paulauskas, S. Spakovaite, V. Gedminas
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Negative effects of flea (Siphonaptera) parasitism on the host may be expressed in different ways. The aim of this study was to assess distribution of the flea fauna in nests of dormice in Lithuania. Nests of Glis glis (L.), Dryomys nitedula (Pallas), and Muscardinus avellanarius (L.) were collected from nest boxes in 2012 and 2013. Fleas were collected from nests in the laboratory and put into plastic tubes with 70% ethanol. Flea species were identified using morphological keys. From 400 nest boxes, 112 nests of dormice were collected from eight sites from mixed forests of central Lithuania. Twenty-three nests of G. glis were collected from nest boxes, with 16 of them containing 286 fleas belonging to four species: Ceratophyllus sciurorum (Schrank) (259), C. gallinae (Schrank) (23), Hystrichopsylla talpae (Curtis) (3), and Megabothris turbidus (Rothschild) (1). Fourteen nests of M. avellanarius were collected from nest boxes, 4 of which contained 224 fleas belonging to two species: C. sciurorum (221) and C. gallinae (3). Twenty-four nests of D. nitedula were collected from nest boxes, including 17 containing 207 fleas belonging to two species: C. sciurorum (205) and C. gallinae (2). Fifty-one nests of undetermined dormice species also were collected from nest boxes, 12 of them contained 395 fleas belonging to three species: C. sciurorum (374), Ctenophthalmus agyrtes (Heller) (19), and Ctenophthalmus assimilis (Taschenberg) (2). C. sciurorum was a predominant species in the nests of dormice. The occurrence of C. gallinae was documented in Lithuania for the first time.

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I. Lipatova, M. Stanko, A. Paulauskas, S. Spakovaite, and V. Gedminas "Fleas (Siphonaptera) in the Nests of Dormice (Gliridae: Rodentia) in Lithuania," Journal of Medical Entomology 52(3), 469-474, (1 May 2015). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjv033
Received: 13 November 2014; Accepted: 20 February 2015; Published: 1 May 2015
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KEYWORDS
dormice
dormouse nest
flea
Gliridae
Siphonaptera
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