| ecology and host specificity of laelapine mites (acari: laelapidae) of small mammals in an atlantic forest area of brazil. | mesostigmatic mites of the laelapinae berlese, 1892 (acari: laelapidae) are nidicolous arthropods that commonly occur in the fur of neotropical small mammmals. in this 2-yr study, the laelapine acarofauna associated with the small mammal community in an area of atlantic forest on ilha grande, rio de janeiro state, was examined, including observations on patterns of host specificity, mite dispersal, ecology, and food habits. a total of 1,347 laelapines was sampled from the pelage of 6 species of ... | 2002 | 12053977 |
| androlaelaps marmosops (acari: laelapidae), a new species associated with the mouse opossum, marmosops incanus (lund, 1840) in the atlantic forest of rio de janeiro state, brazil. | androlaelaps marmosops, a new species of laelapid mite, is described from the pelage of the mouse opossum, marmosops incanus (lund, 1840) (mammalia: didelphidae), in two areas of atlantic forest of rio de janeiro state. measurements and illustrations are included for females only. | 2002 | 12071326 |
| host-ectoparasite specificity in a small mammal community in an area of atlantic rain forest (ilha grande, state of rio de janeiro), southeastern brazil. | the analyses of the ectoparasite species associated with a small mammal community on ilha grande, a coastal island in southern of the state of rio de janeiro, brazil, evaluated the level of host-ectoparasite specificity. was used the jaccard index for qualitative data to analyse the similarity. the lowest value of similarity occurred between proechimys iheringi and marmosops incanus and between sciurus aestuans and nectomys squamipes (cj=0.08) and the highest between p. iheringi and oxymycterus ... | 2003 | 14595458 |