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26 March 2021 The myobiid mites (Acariformes, Eleutherengona, Myobiidae) from Mexico: hosts, distribution and identification key for the genera and species
Angel Herrera-Mares, Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo, Juan B. Morales-Malacara
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Abstract

The family Myobiidae Mégnin, 1878 includes permanent parasites of the fur of different orders of mammals. Because the information on this family is scarce and scattered, in this work, we compile the available information on Myobiidae in Mexico. In total, we recorded 41 species (one undetermined, one a species inquirenda) belonging to 13 genera and three subfamilies, associated with four orders of mammals: Chiroptera, Didelphimorphia, Rodentia and Soricomorpha. We also reported for the first time in Mexico Eudusbabekia jimenezi (Dusbábek, 1967) and E. saguei (Dusbábek, 1967), parasitizing bats of the family Mormoopidae in the States of Colima, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí, and Acanthophthirius lasiurus (Fain & Whitaker, 1976) associated with the bat Lasiurus cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois) (family Vespertilionidae) in Ciudad de México. We recorded new associations with bat hosts: E. proviriliaMorales-Malacara, Guzmán-Cornejo & López-Ortega, 2002 with Leptonycteris yerbabuenae Martínez & Villa (Phyllostomidae); E. saguei with Pteronotus davyi Gray (Mormoopidae), and Ioannela leptonycteris (Fain, 1973) with L. yerbabuenae. In this work, Zacaltepetla hoffmannaeBasurto-R., 1973 is treated as a species inquirenda for the first time. We also provide an identification key to the genera and species of Myobiidae found in Mexico.

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Angel Herrera-Mares, Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo, and Juan B. Morales-Malacara "The myobiid mites (Acariformes, Eleutherengona, Myobiidae) from Mexico: hosts, distribution and identification key for the genera and species," Systematic and Applied Acarology 26(4), 724-748, (26 March 2021). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.26.4.6
Received: 28 February 2020; Accepted: 2 March 2021; Published: 26 March 2021
KEYWORDS
Expletobia
fur mites
Ioannela
myobiids
Radfordia
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