Original scientific paper

Ectoparasites from the nests of the fat dormouse (Myoxus glis) in Slovenia

Tomi Trilar ; Slevene Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, PO Box 290, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

In a mountain area in the Dinaric beech-fir forests of southern Slovenia, sixty summer nests of Myoxus glis were collected. In these nests, 1984 males and 2547 females of Ceratophyllus (Monopsyllus) sciurorum sciurorum, 9117 flea larvae, 3 males and 4 females of Ceratophyllus hirundinis, 1 female of Ceratophyllus rusticus, 3 males of Oeciacus hirundinis and 3 males and 3 females of Schizophthirus sp. were found. This was the second time that Ceratophylluls rusticus and Oeciacus hirundinis and the third time that Schizophthirus sp. were found in Slovenia. The developmental cycle of Ceratophyllus (Monopsyllus) sciurorum sciurorum is described.

Keywords

Myoxus glis; Glis glis; Slovenia; nests; ectoparasites; Ceratophyllus (Monopsyllus) sciurorum sciurorum; Ceratophyllus hirundinis; Ceratophyllus rusticus; Oeciacus hirundinis; Schizophthirus sp.; developmental cycle of Ceratophyllus (Monopsyllus) sciurorum sciurorum

Hrčak ID:

231834

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/231834

Publication date:

31.12.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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