The first finding of the snake mite Ophionyssus natricis (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina) in Kazakhstan

Orlova M.V. Anisimov N.V. Akhmedenov K. Klenina A. Simonov E.
2025 Les Amis dAcarologia

Acarologia
2025 #65 Issue 2 584 - 588 pp.

Here we report the ectoparasitic snake mite Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais, 1844) collected from the dice snake, Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768) (Reptilia: Colubridae), in Mangystau, Kazakhstan. This is the first record of O. natricis for the country. We also consider some morphological features of the snake mite in the study area.

dice snake , ectoparasites , Mangystau , snake mite

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Tyumen State Medical University, Tyumen, Russian Federation
National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
M. Utemisov West Kazakhstan University, Uralsk, Kazakhstan
Samara Federal Research Scientific Center RAS, Institute of Ecology of Volga River Basin RAS, Togliatti, Russian Federation
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russian Federation

Tyumen State Medical University
National Research Tomsk State University
M. Utemisov West Kazakhstan University
Samara Federal Research Scientific Center RAS
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

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