Ectoparasitos de roedores em ambientes silvestres do Município de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais

Androlaelaps rotundus Fonseca (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with akodontine rodents in Paraguay: a morphometric examination of a pleioxenous ectoparasite

“…In Sout America only one nominal species, Androlaelaps (Eubrachylaelaps) rotundus Fonseca, is known. This widely distributed mite has been reported in all ectoparasite surveys where akodontine rodents are present (Botelho & Williams, 1980;Castro et al, 1987;Fonseca, 1958;Furman, 1972;Lareschi, 1996;Linardi et al, 1987;Linardi et al, 1991;Mares et al, 1989;Mauri, 1964;Mauri & Capri, 1970;Whitaker & Dietz, 1987;Whitaker & Abrell, 1987), and displays a pleioxenous association with a number of different, but phylogenetically related, akodontine hosts.…”

Small todents fleas from the bubonic plague focus located in the Serra dos Órgãos Mountain Range, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“…The mean number (intensity) of fleas per host (924/601=1.54) (Table III) was higher than the ones previously reported in other habitats in Brazil: 0.15 from Caatinga scrub forest in Brazilian northeast (Guimarães 1972) and 0.29 to 0.64 from Araucaria forest in State of Paraná (Barros et al 1993, Barros-Battesti et al 1998). In the Atlantic forest, this number was around 0.30 from Guaraqueçaba in State of Paraná (Bicho et al 1999), 0.93 from Caratinga (Botelho & Linardi 1980); 1.06 from Juiz de Fora, both in the State of Minas Gerais (Linardi et al 1987); 2.85 from Salesópolis, State of São Paulo (Linardi 1977) and 3.6 from Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro (Guitton et al 1986), in spite of methodological differences and capture efforts.…”

Host-ectoparasite specificity in a small mammal community in an area of Atlantic Rain Forest (Ilha Grande, State of Rio de Janeiro), Southeastern Brazil

“…In Brazil, it is associated primarily with R. norvegicus (e.g. Linardi et al 1987, Botelho & Linardi 1996, R. rattus and A. cursor (Oliveira et al 2001).…”