TSU biologist Maria Orlova has discovered an extremely rare species of parasite, Spinturnix scuticornis (Acari: Spinturnicidae). The invertebrate was taken from a Himalayan bat caught in Vietnam, where the bat is widespread. This is the first find for the Republic of Vietnam and the fourth in the world. The detection was also unusual—an unidentified tick was found among the parasites stored in the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. The research results are published in the International Journal of Acarology.
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