Chelanyssus aethiopicus

Chelanyssus aethiopicus (Hirst, 1921) Liponyssus aethiopicus Hirst, 1921: 783. Chelanyssus aethiopicus.— Till & Evans, 1966: 403. (Figs 4A–B) Material: 2 females, one containing an egg, ex female Mops pumilus from Oromia, Wellega, Dhati-Welel National Park, 09°14'N, 34°53'E, 1427 m ASL, 9 February 2014, leg. Sergei V. Kruskop (collection ID ZMMU S-192871); 1 protonymph, from female ex Mops pumilus, from Oromia, Arsi Zone, 1 km north-east from Dera, 08°20'N, 39°20'E, 1705 m ASL, 21 April 2012, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S-190433). Distribution: Ethiopia (this study, new record), Burundi (Till & Evans 1966), Rwanda (as Congo – Till & Evans 1966), Congo (Brazzaville) (Till & Evans 1966), DR Congo (Till & Evans 1966), Kenya (Whitaker & Mumford 1978), Madagascar (Till & Evans 1966), Malawi (Hirst 1921), Mozambique (Zumpt 1961), South Africa (as Transvaal – Zumpt 1961), Sudan (Hirst 1921), Tanzania (Radovsky 1967), Vietnam (Grokhovskaya & Nguyen 1961 – the only Asian record of the species). Host species: Chiropteran hosts: “bat” (Chiroptera) (Hirst 1921); Family Vespertilionidae: Pipistrellus coromandra (Grokhovskaya & Nguyen 1961), Nycticeinops sp. (as Nycticeius sp. – Zumpt 1961); Family Molossidae: Mops leucostigma (as Tadarida (Chaerephon) leucostigma – Till & Evans 1966), M. limbata (as Tadarida (Chaerephon) limbata – Radovsky 1967), M. major (as Tadarida major – Zumpt 1961), M. nigeriae spillmanni, Mops condylura (as Tadarida (Mops) condylura – Till & Evans 1966), M. midas (as Tadarida (Mops) midas – Till & Evans 1966), Mops pumilus (as Tadarida (Mops) pumila – Whitaker & Mumford 1978; as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila – Radovsky 1967; as Tadarida pumila – Zumpt 1961; as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila naivashae (Keegan 1956); this study. Non-chiropteran host: “elephant shrew” (Macroscelidea; not identified) (Hirst 1921). Medical significance: Unknown.