Laelaps is a genus of common parasitic mites in the family Laelapidae. Species, with their hosts, include:
- Laelaps acuminata – Oecomys[1]
- Laelaps agilis – Rattus[2]
- Laelaps alaskensis – Blarina, Clethrionomys, Craseomys, Dicrostonyx, Lemmiscus, Lemmus, Microtus, Mustela, Myotis, Napaeozapus, Ochrotomys, Ondatra, Onychomys, Parascalops, Peromyscus, Phenacomys, Poliocitellus, Sorex, Synaptomys, Thomomys[3]
- Laelaps boultoni – Neacomys, Sigmodon, Oligoryzomys, Oecomys, Heteromys[4]
- Laelaps castroi – Oligoryzomys[1]
- Laelaps clethrionomydis – Clethrionomys, Craseomys,[2] Microtus,[5]
- Laelaps conula – Rhipidomys[4]
- Laelaps crinigera – Oryzomyini[6]
- Laelaps dearmasi – Zygodontomys[4]
- Laelaps differens[1]
- Laelaps echidnina – Rattus,[4] Didelphis, Sigmodon,[5] Mus, Peromyscus, Sylvilagus[2]
- Laelaps evansi – Neofiber[5]
- Laelaps exceptionalis – "wild rat"[4]
- Laelaps flexa – Microryzomys[1]
- Laelaps giganteus (Berlese, 1918)[7] – Lemniscomys[8]
- Laelaps incilis – Microtus, Neotamias, Peromyscus[2]
- Laelaps kochi – Blarina, Clethrionomys, Corynorhinus, Craseomys, Dicrostonyx, Dipodomys, Glaucomys, Microtus, Mustela, Napaeozapus, Neotamias, Neovison, Neurotrichus, Ondatra, Peromyscus, Phenacomys, Sigmodon, Sorex, Synaptomys, Tamias, Zapus[3]
- Laelaps lavieri – Mus[9]
- Laelaps lemmi – Lemmus[2]
- Laelaps liberiensis – Mastomys[8]
- Laelaps manguinhosi – Holochilus, Nectomys, Neusticomys, and various other mammals[4]
- Laelaps mazzai – Calomys, Oligoryzomys[6]
- Laelaps multispinosa – Castor, Didelphis, Microtus, Mustela, Neovison, Ondatra, Peromyscus, Procyon[10]
- Laelaps muricola – Mastomys[8]
- Laelaps muris – Microtus, Ondatra[2]
- Laelaps navasi – Oryzomyini[6]
- Laelaps nuttalli – Mus, Ochrotomys, Peromyscus,[2] Rattus,[4] Sciurus[11]
- Laelaps ovata – Nephelomys[4]
- Laelaps paulistanensis – Rhipidomys, Oryzomyini[1]
- Laelaps pilifer – Oryzomyini[1]
- Laelaps spicata – Oryzomyini[6]
- Laelaps stupkai – Synaptomys[11]
- Laelaps surcomata – Rhipidomys[6]
- Laelaps thori[4]
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Unnamed or unidentified species have been reported on Gerbilliscus robustus and Acomys wilsoni in Tanzania[8] and on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida and Georgia.[12]
Synonym of Dryptosaurus
editIn 1866, an incomplete theropod dinosaur skeleton (ANSP 9995) was found in New Jersey by workers in a quarry belonging to the upper part of the New Egypt Formation.[13] Paleontologist E.D. Cope described the remains, naming the creature "Laelaps" ("storm wind", after the dog in Greek mythology that never failed to catch what it was hunting).[14] "Laelaps" became one of the first dinosaurs described from North America (following Hadrosaurus, Aublysodon and Trachodon). Subsequently, it was discovered that the name "Laelaps" had already been given to a genus of mite, and Cope's lifelong rival O.C. Marsh changed the name in 1877 to Dryptosaurus.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f Furman, 1972, p. 20
- ^ a b c d e f g Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10
- ^ a b Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Furman, 1972, p. 19
- ^ a b c Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20
- ^ a b c d e Furman, 1972, p. 18
- ^ For use of specific binomen L. giganteus in scientific literature, see:
- Zumpt & Till, 1958;
- Strandtman & Mitchell (1963);
- Matthee, Horak, et al. (2007);
- Nazarizadeh, Martinů, et al. (2022)
- ^ a b c d Stanley et al., 2007, p. 70
- ^ Stanley et al., 2007, p. 71
- ^ Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21
- ^ a b Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 21
- ^ Worth, 1950, p. 330; Morlan, 1952, table 2
- ^ "Dryptosaurus." In: Dodson, Peter & Britt, Brooks & Carpenter, Kenneth & Forster, Catherine A. & Gillette, David D. & Norell, Mark A. & Olshevsky, George & Parrish, J. Michael & Weishampel, David B. The Age of Dinosaurs. Publications International, LTD. p. 112-113. ISBN 0-7853-0443-6.
- ^ Cope, E.D. (1866). "Discovery of a gigantic dinosaur in the Cretaceous of New Jersey." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 18: 275-279.
Literature cited
edit- Furman, D.P. (1972). "Laelapid mites (Laelapidae: Laelapinae) from Venezuela". Brigham Young University Science Bulletin 17(3):1–58.
- Matthee, Sonja; Horak, Ivan G.; Beaucournu, Jean-Claude; Durden, Lance A.; Ueckermann, Eddie A.; McGeoch, Melodie A. (February 2007). "Epifaunistic arthropod parasites of the four-striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio, in the Western Cape Province, South Africa". Journal of Parasitology. 93 (1): 47–59. doi:10.1645/GE-819R2.1. PMID 17436941. Archived 22 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- Morlan, Harvey B. (1952). "Host Relationships and Seasonal Abundance of Some Southwest Georgia Southwest Georgia Ectoparasites". The American Midland Naturalist. 48 (1): 74–93. doi:10.2307/2422133. JSTOR 2422133.
- Nazarizadeh, Masoud; Martinů, Jana; Nováková, Milena; Stanko, Michal; Štefka, Jan (December 2022). "Phylogeography of the parasitic mite Laelaps agilis in Western Palearctic shows lineages lacking host specificity but possessing different demographic histories". BMC Zoology. 7 (1): 15. doi:10.1186/s40850-022-00115-y. PMC 10127304. PMID 37170127.
The main lineages of L. muricola and L. giganteus diverged from L. agilis and L. clethrionomydis ...
- Stanley, W.T., Rogers, M.A., Senzota, R.B.M., Mturi, F.A., Kihaule, P.M., Moehlman, P.D. and O'Connor, B.M. (2007). "Surveys of small mammals in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania". Journal of East African Natural History 96(1):47–71.
- Strandtman, R. W.; Mitchell, Carl J. (15 October 1963). "The Laelaptine Mites of the Echinolaelaps Complex from the Southwest Pacific Area" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 5 (3): 541–576. Archived 21 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine
- Whitaker, John O.; Wilson, Nixon (1974). "Host and Distribution Lists of Mites (Acari), Parasitic and Phoretic, in the Hair of Wild Mammals of North America, North of Mexico". The American Midland Naturalist. 91 (1): 1–67. doi:10.2307/2424511. JSTOR 2424511.
- Whitaker, J.O., Walters, B.L., Castor, L.K., Ritzi, C.M. and Wilson, N. (2007). "Host and distribution lists of mites (Acari), parasitic and phoretic, in the hair or on the skin of North American wild mammals north of Mexico: records since 1974". Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1:1–173.
- Worth, C. Brooke (1950). "Observations on Ectoparasites of Some Small Mammals in Everglades National Park and Hillsborough County, Florida". The Journal of Parasitology. 36 (4): 326–335. doi:10.2307/3273467. JSTOR 3273467. PMID 15437232.
- Zumpt, F.; Till, W. M. (November 1958). "Notes on the classification and synonymy of gamasid mites parasitic on vertebrates (Acarina: Mesostigmata)". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 21 (2). hdl:10520/AJA00128789_2505.