''Laelaps manguinhosi'' is a species of parasitic mite in the family

Laelapidae The Laelapidae are a family (biology), family of mites in the order Mesostigmata. The family is also referred to in the literature as Laelaptidae, which may be the correct spelling. Description Laelapidae have a shield covering all or most of ...

. In the United States, it has been found on the

marsh rice rat The marsh rice rat (''Oryzomys palustris'') is a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae. It usually occurs in wetland habitats, such as swamps and salt marshes. It is found mostly in the eastern and southern United States, fr ...

(''Oryzomys palustris'') in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina. Other recorded hosts include the

sigmodontine The rodent subfamily Sigmodontinae includes New World rats and mice, with at least 376 species. Many authorities include the Neotominae and Tylomyinae as part of a larger definition of Sigmodontinae. When those genera are included, the species c ...

rodents ''

Scapteromys aquaticus The Argentine swamp rat (''Scapteromys aquaticus'') is a semiaquatic rodent species from South America. It is found in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay, where it lives in freshwater marshes and along the southern coast of the Río de la Plat ...

'', '' Akodon azarae'', ''

Oligoryzomys flavescens ''Oligoryzomys flavescens'', also known as the flavescent colilargo or yellow pygmy rice rat is a species of rodent in the genus ''Oligoryzomys'' of family Cricetidae. It is found in southern South America, occurring in southern Brazil, Paraguay, ...

'', and '' Holochilus brasiliensis'' in Argentina and ''

Oryzomys couesi ''Oryzomys couesi'', also known as Coues's rice rat, is a semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae occurring from southernmost Texas through Mexico and Central America into northwestern Colombia. It is usually found in wet habitats, such as m ...

'' and '' Handleyomys melanotis'' in Mexico. In Venezuela, it mainly infects the

oryzomyine Oryzomyini is a tribe (taxonomy), tribe of rodents in the subfamily Sigmodontinae of the family Cricetidae. It includes about 120 species in about thirty genera,Weksler et al., 2006, table 1 distributed from the eastern List of mammals of the Uni ...

s ''

Holochilus sciureus The Amazonian marsh rat (''Holochilus sciureus''), also known as the common marsh rat,Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. ''Mammals of the World: A checklist''. Yale University Press, 312 pp. or simply the marsh rat, is a rodent species from South Amer ...

'' and '' Nectomys'', but it has also been recorded on a variety of other mammals and even on a bird. A separate subspecies, ''Laelaps manguinhosi calvescens'', has been described from the

ichthyomyine Ichthyomyini is a tribe of New World rats and mice in the subfamily Sigmodontinae. The species within this tribe share the characteristics of all being carnivorous semiaquatic rodents. *''Anotomys'' - aquatic rat *''Chibchanomys ''Chibchano ...

rodent ''

Neusticomys venezuelae The Venezuelan fish-eating rat (''Neusticomys venezuelae'') is a species of a Rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Guyana and Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República B ...

''.Furman, 1972, p. 24

Notes

References

Literature cited

*Estébanes-González, M.L., Sánchez-Hernández, C., Romero-Almaraz, M. de L. and Schnell, G.D. 2011
Ácaros parásitos de roedores de Playa de Oro, Colima, México
Acta Zoológica Mexicana 27(1):169–176 (in Spanish). *Furman, D.P. 1972
Laelapid mites (Laelapidae: Laelapinae) from Venezuela
(PDF). Brigham Young University Science Bulletin 17(3):1–58. *Nava, S., Lareschi, M. and Voglino, D. 2003
Interrelationship between ectoparasites and wild rodents from northeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
(PDF). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98(1):45–49. *Whitaker, J.O. and Wilson, N. 1974
Host and distribution lists of mites (Acari), parasitic and phoretic, in the hair of wild mammals of North America, north of Mexico
(subscription required). American Midland Naturalist 91(1):1–67. {{Taxonbar, from=Q6470887 Laelapidae Animals described in 1936 Endemic fauna of Florida Parasites of rodents

See also

Notes

References

Literature cited