Terrestrial Parasitengona mites (Trombidiformes) of Denmark – new data on parasite-host associations and new country records

Simon Haarder (1) , Joanna Mąkol (2)

1 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
2 Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences

An updated list of terrestrial Parasitengona mites of Denmark, containing 34 species aggregated in eight families, is presented and compared to existing records from Fennoscandia. Five parasitengone species, Charletonia cardinalis, Leptus mariae (Erythraeidae), Platytrombidium fasciatum (Microtrombidiidae), Paratrombium egregium (Trombidiidae) and Centrothrombidium blackwellae (Johnstonianidae) are recorded as new to the fauna of Denmark. We provide 29 records of parasite-host association between terrestrial Parasitengona mites and their arthropod hosts. Of those, 15 associations are recorded for the first time.

Mots clés: Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; Aacriformes; Calyptostomatoidea; Erythraeoidea; Trombidioidea; larvae; hosts; new records; Fennoscandia

Domaines: Parasitologie; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie; Interactions entre organismes

Simon Haarder, Joanna Mąkol. Terrestrial Parasitengona mites (Trombidiformes) of Denmark – new data on parasite-host associations and new country records. Acarologia, 2022, 62 (2), pp.508-520. ⟨10.24349/yglc-mnck⟩. ⟨hal-03689863⟩