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New records of ectoparasites from the eastern water bat Myotis petax Hollister, 1912, belonging to the Siberian-Russian Far Eastern complex and earlier regarded as the subspecies of the Daubenton’s bat Myotis daubentonii s. lato, are given. Previous records of ectoparasites of the eastern water bat (old interpretation of the species) are revised. Fourteen species of bloodsucking arthropods feed on M. petax; these species include 4, 3, and 7 species of gamasid mites, fleas, and bat flies, respectively.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Orlova, O.L. Orlov, A.V. Zhigalin, 2014, published in Parazitologiya, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 315–324.
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Orlova, M.V., Orlov, O.L. & Zhigalin, A.V. New records of ectoparasites of the eastern water bat Myotis petax Hollister, 1912 (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) and the revision of the material previously collected from Myotis daubentonii s. lato in the eastern Palaearctic. Entmol. Rev. 94, 1306–1312 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873814090115
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