Resumen

A survey collection of mites of the family Spinturnicidae from Peruvian bats includes 11 species of Periglischrus (acutisternus, gameroi, grandisoma, herrerai, hopkinsi, iheringi, micronycteridis, ojasti, paracutisternus, paravargasi, and ramirezi) and 2 Spinturnix (americanus and bakeri); almost all represent new locality records. This survey collection is available for further study at the following repositories: The Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; and the Laboratório de Espeleobiologia y Acarologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. When spinturnicid mites are collected to avoid cross-contamination by mites among species of bats, parasitic associations are consistently host specific, with Periglischrus spp. distributed exclusively on phyllostomid bats, and Spinturnix spp. on vespertilionids. Notable disjunctions within the Manú Reserve include an absence of spinturnicids on bats of the genus Carollia (Phyllostomidae), or with Chiroderma villosum (Stenodermatinae). Mites of the family Spinturnicidae are not normally associated with bats of the families Emballonuridae, Molossidae, or Noctilionidae.