. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. THE BRITISH DERM AN YSSI D AE (ACARI) 335. A B Fig. 89. Steatonyssus occidentalis (Ewing), female ; dorsal shields (a) ; ventral shields (b). Male and Protonymph : Described by Radovsky & Furman (1963) and by Till & Evans (1964). Habitat : Found on Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber), Wickham Market, Suffolk, 24th June, 1964 (coll. Lord Cranbrook). This is the first record of 5. (5.) occidentalis from Britain. Previously the species was known only from North America, where it occurs on bats of the genera Eptesicus, Myotis, Tadarida
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. THE BRITISH DERM AN YSSI D AE (ACARI) 335. A B Fig. 89. Steatonyssus occidentalis (Ewing), female ; dorsal shields (a) ; ventral shields (b). Male and Protonymph : Described by Radovsky & Furman (1963) and by Till & Evans (1964). Habitat : Found on Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber), Wickham Market, Suffolk, 24th June, 1964 (coll. Lord Cranbrook). This is the first record of 5. (5.) occidentalis from Britain. Previously the species was known only from North America, where it occurs on bats of the genera Eptesicus, Myotis, Tadarida, Corynorhinus and Lasiurus. Genus OPHIONYSSUS Megnin Ophionyssus Megnin, 1884, Soc. Biol. Paris 35 : 614. Serpenticola Ewing, 1923, Proc. nat. Mus. 62 (art. 13) : 6. Sauronyssus Sambon, 1928, Ann. trop. Med. 22 : 106. Neoliponyssus Ewing, 1929, Manual of External Parasites : 187. Oudemansiella Fonseca, 1948, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 118 : 269. Type : Dermanyssus natricis Gervais, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Farn, Alexander E. London : Butterworths
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