title: Three new species of Laelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with small mammals in central Brazil.
abstract: Three new species of Laelaps Koch are described and illustrated from small mammals in the Federal District of Brazil. Each new species is primarily associated with one species of rodent: L. valdevinoi n. sp. from Calomys tener (Winge); L. fonsecai n. sp. from Rhipidomys mastacalis (Lund); and L. furmani n. sp. from Oryzomys bicolor (Tomes). Two of the new species were previously included under names species, from which they are now separated: L. fonsecai n. sp. from L. paulistanensis Fonseca, 1935; L. furmani n. sp. from L. acuminata Furman, 1972. Descriptions of the three new species are based on the female; the male of L. valdevinoi is also described. Diagnoses are included, providing characteristics by which the new species can be distinguished from previously described South American Laelaps.
authors.affiliation: Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gettinger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008924:Mite Infestations / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008925:Mites / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D016205:Sigmodontinae / Q000469:parasitology*