Spinturnix americana

Spinturnix americana is a species of mite that parasitizes bat wings. It was described as a new species in 1902 by American entomologist Nathan Banks. Banks initially placed it in the now-defunct genus Pteroptus. The holotype had been collected from a bat in a cave in Indiana.^[1]^[2] Species that it affects include the little brown bat, northern long-eared bat,^[3] and riparian myotis.^[4] It has been documented affecting bats in Indiana and Pennsylvania in the United States,^[3] Nova Scotia in Canada,^[5] and Mato Grosso in Brazil.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Banks, Nathan (1902). "New Genera and Species of Acarians". The Canadian Entomologist. 34 (7): 171–176. doi:10.4039/Ent34171-7.
^ Beron, Petar, ed. (2020). Acarorum Catalogus VI, Order Mesostigmata. Pensoft. doi:10.3897/ab.e54206. ISBN 978-619-248-006-6.
^ ^a ^b Dick, Carl W.; Gannon, Michael R.; Little, Wendy E.; Patrick, Michael J. (2003). "Ectoparasite Associations of Bats from Central Pennsylvania". Journal of Medical Entomology. 40 (6): 813–819. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-40.6.813. PMID 14765658.
^ ^a ^b Almeida, Juliana Cardoso de; Martins, Mayara Almeida; Guedes, Patrícia Gonçalves; Peracchi, Adriano Lucio; Serra-Freire, Nicolau Maues (2016). "New records of mites (Acari: Spinturnicidae) associated with bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) in two Brazilian biomes: Pantanal and Caatinga". Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária. 25 (1): 18–23. doi:10.1590/S1984-29612016005. PMID 26982558. S2CID 8489712.
^ Poissant, Joseph A.; Broders, Hugh G. (2008). "Ectoparasite Prevalence in Myotis lucifugus and M. Septentrionalis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) During Fall Migration at Hayes Cave, Nova Scotia". Northeastern Naturalist. 15 (4): 515–522. doi:10.1656/1092-6194-15.4.515.