@article {40303,
	title = {The ectoparasites of brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula in New Zealand},
	journal = {New Zealand Journal of Zoology},
	volume = {24},
	year = {1997},
	month = {1997},
	pages = {199 - 204},
	abstract = {<p>The ectoparasites of the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula were examined at 15 original release sites in New Zealand. Three species of fur mite-A tellana papilio Domrow, 1958, Petrogalochirus dycei (Domrow, 1960), and Murichirus anabiotus Domrow, 1992-were present in all population samples from the North, South, Stewart, and Kawau Islands. M. anabiotus was absent from the Chatham Islands. A. papilio was isolated from 82 (98\%) of the 84 digested pelts, P. dycei from 78 (93\%) of 84, and M. anabiotus was found in 67 (93\%) of the 72 pelts digested from populations where the mites were present. The follicle mite Marsupiopus Trichosuri Fain, 1968 was detected in two (7\%) and one (3\%) of pelts examined from Kawau Island and the Orongorongo Valley, respectively. Trichosurolaelaps crassipes Womersley, 1956 was present on 99\% of possums and absent only from Kawau Island. Nymphs and larvae of the cattle tick Haemaphysalis longicornis were isolated from four (33\%) of the 12 Northland pelts. The loss of ectoparasitic mites resulting from the transfer of possums from their native Australia to New Zealand has been minimal in mites with a direct life cycle. Acariasis of the rump and tail was attributed to M. trichosuri, and A. papilio is implicated in fur breakage.</p>
},
	keywords = {Acari, biology, Control, ectoparasite, lice, mites, new, new zealand, Trichosurolaelaps, vector, womersley},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1997.9518114},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03014223.1997.9518114},
	author = {Clark,J. Marshall and Heath,D. D. and Stankiewicz,M.}
}
