Chelanyssus aethiopicus ( Hirst, 1921 )

Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A. & Vyalykh, Ivan V., 2024, New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia, Ecologica Montenegrina 79, pp. 150-159 : 154

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.79.15
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14653583
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scientific name	Chelanyssus aethiopicus ( Hirst, 1921 )
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Chelanyssus aethiopicus ( Hirst, 1921)

Liponyssus aethiopicus Hirst, 1921: 783 View in CoL .

Chelanyssus aethiopicus .— Till & Evans, 1966: 403.

( Figs 4A–B View Figure 4 )

Material: 2 females, one containing an egg, ex female Mops pumilus from Oromia, Wellega, Dhati-Welel National Park, 09°14'N, 34°53'E, 1427 m ASL, 9 February 2014, leg. Sergei V. Kruskop (collection ID ZMMU S-192871); 1 protonymph, from female ex Mops pumilus , from Oromia, Arsi Zone, 1 km north-east from Dera, 08°20'N, 39°20'E, 1705 m ASL, 21 April 2012, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S-190433).

Distribution: Ethiopia (this study, new record), Burundi ( Till & Evans 1966), Rwanda (as Congo – Till & Evans 1966), Congo (Brazzaville) ( Till & Evans 1966), DR Congo ( Till & Evans 1966), Kenya ( Whitaker & Mumford 1978), Madagascar ( Till & Evans 1966), Malawi ( Hirst 1921), Mozambique ( Zumpt 1961), South Africa (as Transvaal – Zumpt 1961), Sudan ( Hirst 1921), Tanzania ( Radovsky 1967), Vietnam ( Grokhovskaya & Nguyen 1961 – the only Asian record of the species).

Host species: Chiropteran hosts: “bat” ( Chiroptera ) ( Hirst 1921); Family Vespertilionidae : Pipistrellus coromandra ( Grokhovskaya & Nguyen 1961) , Nycticeinops sp. (as Nycticeius sp. – Zumpt 1961); Family Molossidae : Mops leucostigma (as Tadarida (Chaerephon) leucostigma – Till & Evans 1966), M. limbata (as Tadarida (Chaerephon) limbata – Radovsky 1967), M. major (as Tadarida major – Zumpt 1961), M. nigeriae spillmanni , Mops condylura (as Tadarida (Mops) condylura – Till & Evans 1966), M. midas (as Tadarida (Mops) midas – Till & Evans 1966), Mops pumilus (as Tadarida (Mops) pumila – Whitaker & Mumford 1978; as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila – Radovsky 1967; as Tadarida pumila – Zumpt 1961; as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila naivashae ( Keegan 1956) ; this study.