Tags: Arachnid.

Laelaps manguinhosi is a species of parasitic mite in the family Laelapidae. In the United States it has been found on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida Texas and South Carolina. Other recorded hosts include the sigmodontine rodents Scapteromys aquaticus Akodon azarae Oligoryzomys flavescens and Holochilus brasiliensis in Argentina and Oryzomys couesi and Handleyomys melanotis in Mexico.

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