Check List 13(4): 239-243, doi: 10.15560/13.4.239
First record of Parasitus americanus (Berlese, 1905) and Cornigamasus ocliferius Skorupski & Witaliński, 1997 (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) from Slovakia
Kamila Hrúzová‡, Peter Fenďa‡‡ Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Corresponding author: Kamila Hrúzová ( hruzova2@uniba.sk ) Academic editor: Marcel Santos de Araújo © 2017 Kamila Hrúzová, Peter Fenďa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Abstract
Two species of Parasitidae, Parasitus americanus (Berlese, 1905) and Cornigamasus ocliferius Skorupski & Witaliński, 1997 were found for the first time in Slovakia. Parasitus americanus is a cosmopolitan species, which was found in several cemeteries and in a botanic garden in Bratislava. Almost all records of C. ocliferius are from Poland except for one record from Egypt. Cornigamasus ocliferius was found in decomposed plant material in Western and Central Slovakia and in bird nests in Western and Eastern Slovakia; part of the material was previously published as Cornigamasus lunaris (Berlese, 1882) and is revised here.
Keywords
Mites; new records; soil; compost; bird nest