Species Ornithonyssus bursa (Berlese, 1888)

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• Leiognathus bursa Berlese, A. 1888. Acari Austro-Americani quos collegit Aloysius Balzan. Manipulus primus. Species novas circiter quinquaginta complectens. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 20: 171-222 pls V-XIII.
• Leiognathus morsitans Hirst, S. 1915. On a widely distributed gamasid mite (Leiognathus morsitans, sp. n.), parasitic on the domestic fowl. Bulletin of Entomological Research 6: 55-58.

 

Introduction

This species is the subject of a very extensive literature, because it sometimes bites humans and causes skin irritation. Only a few selected references are listed here. Its biology and medical importance were reviewed by Mullen & OConnor (2009).

 

General References

Carne, P.B. (ed.) 1987. Scientific and Common Names of Insects and Allied Forms Occurring in Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO 120 pp. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Domrow, R. 1963. New records and species of Austromalayan laelapid mites. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 88: 199-220 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Domrow, R. 1966. Some mite parasites of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 90: 190-217 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Domrow, R. 1977. New records and species of Laelaps and allied genera from Australasia (Acari : Dermanyssidae). Part 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 101: 185-217 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Domrow, R. 1988. Acari Mesostigmata parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 817-948 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Domrow, R. 1992. Acari Astigmata (excluding feather mites) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1459-1606 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Domrow, R. & Smith, D.J.W. 1956. Acarina from five hundred native mammals from Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 80: 201-206 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Green, R.H. 1989. The ectoparasitic mites of Tasmanian vertebrate animals. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 98: 1-25 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Hirst, S. 1916. On the occurrence of the tropical fowl mite (Liponyssus bursa, Berlese) in Australia, and a new instance of its attacking man. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 18: 243-244 (as Liponyssus bursa)

Lee, D.C. & Southcott, R.V. 1979. Spiders and other Arachnids of South Australia. pp. 29-43 in Leonard, B.E. (ed.). South Australian Year Book No. 14. Adelaide : Australian Bureau of Statistics. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Lindquist, E.E., Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. 2009. Order Mesostigmata. pp.124-232 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Mackerras, I.M., Mackerras, M.J. & Sandars, D.F. 1953. Parasites of the bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 61-63 (as Bdellonyssus bursa)

Micherdzinski, W. 1980. Eine Taxonomische Analyse der Familie Macronyssidae Oudemans, 1936. I. Subfamilie Ornithonyssinae Lange, 1958 (Acarina, Mesostigmata). Warsaw and Cracow : Polska Akademia Nauk pp. 264. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Mullen, G.R. & OConnor, B.M. 2009. Mites (Acari). pp. 433-492 in Mullen, G.R. & Durden, L.A. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Amsterdam : Elsevier 2. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Naumann, I. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names. Common and Scientific Names for Insects and Allied Organisms of Economic and Environmental Importance. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications v 200 pp. [Date published 31/12/1993] (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Radovsky, F.J. 2010. Revision of Genera of the Parasitic Mite Family Macronyssidae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssoidea) of the World. West Bloomfield, Michigan : Indira Publishing House pp. 170. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Seddon, H.R. 1952. Diseases of Domestic Animals in Australia. Part 3. Tick and Mite Infestations. Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publication (Division of Veterinary Hygeine) 7. 200 pp. (as Liponyssus bursa)

Seddon, H.R. 1968. Diseases of Domestic Animals in Australia. Part 3. Arthropod Infestations (Ticks and Mites). Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publication (Veterinary Hygeine) (Revised by H. E. Albiston) Vol. 7 170 pp. (as Liponyssus bursa)

Southcott, R.V. 1976. Arachnidism and allied syndromes in the Australian region. Records of the Adelaide Children's Hospital 1: 97-186 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Southcott, R.V. 1978. Lepidopterism in the Australian region. Records of the Adelaide Children's Hospital 2: 87-173 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Strandtmann, R.W. & Wharton, G.W. 1958. Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites. Contribution number 4, Institute of Acarology, College Park, Maryland. 330 pp. 60 pls (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Taylor, F.H. 1946. Spiders, ticks and mites, including the species harmful to man in Australia and New Guinea. Section 1. Descriptive. Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publications (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney) 6: 1-234 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Walter, D.E. & Shaw, M. 2003. The importance of being earnest: Exotic invasive mites (Arachnida: Acari) on Australian vertebrates. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monogr. Ser 7: 25-30 (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

Yunker, C.E. 1973. Mites. pp. 425-492 in Flynn, R.J. (ed.). Parasites of Laboratory Animals. Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University Press. (as Ornithonyssus bursa)

 

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