Life Sciences Commons^™

First Report Of Mites And Fleas Associated With Sigmodontine Rodents From Corrientes Province, Argentina, Marcela Lareschi, Donald Gettinger, Santiago Nava, Agustín Abba, Mariano L. Merino

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) and mesostigmate mites (Acari: Laelapidae) are common ectoparasitic associates of sigmodontine rodents in the Neotropics of South America. In Argentina, most of the research on ectoparasitic arthropods has been carried out on rodents from Buenos Aires Province (Autino and Lareschi, 1998; Lareschi and Mauri, 1998), while only a few small studies have been done in other areas of the country, such as the northwest (Lareschi et al., 2003a), and the Monte Desert Biome in Mendoza Province (Lareschi et al., 2004). Unfortunately, very little information is available from the region between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers in northeastern …