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

Authors

John O. Whitaker Jr., Dept. of Ecology and Organismal Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809Follow
Brianne L. Walters, Department of Ecology and Organsimal Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809Follow
Linda K. Castor, Department of Ecology and Organsimal Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Christopher M. Ritzi, Department of Biology, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas 79832
Nixon Wilson, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614

Date of this Version

July 2007

Comments

This article is part of the effort by the Harold W. Manter Laboratory to diversify into the area of ectoparasitology.

Abstract

Information concerning mites found in the hair of wild mammals of North America north of Mexico is summarized for records accumulated since a similar paper was published by Whitaker and Wilson in 1974. Chiggers, ticks and species that burrow into or under the skin are generally excluded although follicle-inhabiting mites are included. Included are lists a) of the mites organized taxonomically, b) hosts from which each species has been reported, and c) states and provinces citing references for each separate record.