Some Laelapine Mites (Acari: Laelapidae) Ectoparasitic on Small Mammals in the Galapagos Islands, including a New Species of Gigantolaelaps from Aegialomys galapagoensis

• Main Authors: Gettinger, Donald D., Martins-Hatano, Fernanda, Gardner, Scott Lyell
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biology; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Life Sciences; Parasitology; Galapagos; Seta; Rattus rattus; Mite
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/slg/7; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/slg/article/1008/viewcontent/23019170.pdf

A collection of laelapine mites from small mammals in the Galapagos Islands are identified and their host distributions reviewed. Two species of native rodents, Aegialomys galapagoensis and Nesoryzomys narboroughii, were infested only with species typical of Neotropical oryzomyine rodents; Rattus ra...