Ectoparasites and Pathogens of Kuhl’s Pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): Our Own and Published Data Reviewстатья
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Аннотация:Here we report the results of our own survey and literary published data on the ectoparasite faunaand pathogens of the alien bat species, the Kuhl’s pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).This bat is a host of 36 species of parasitic mites, ticks and insects (including accidental findings)and 13 species of pathogens (protozoa, bacteria, viruses). The flea Ischnopsyllus variabilis is recordedon this host for the first time. We have found that outside of the host ancestral range, the core of the bat parasitefauna is significantly different due to the loss of host species-specific ectoparasites. Particularly, in Russia,only 6 species of parasitic arthropods have been recorded for Kuhl’s pipistrelle and all of them are hostgenus-specific. At the same time, the features of ecology and occasional finds of extrinsic parasites allow tosuggest that P. kuhlii has wide contacts with animals which are the reservoirs of zoonotic infections,that incombination with the fact of isolation of several pathogens from this species (including two coronaviruses)points to a possible medical importance of Kuhl’s pipistrelle.