Tags: Arachnid.
Prolistrophorus bakeri is a parasitic mite in the genus Prolistrophorus. Together with the Argentine P. hirstianus it forms the subgenus Beprolistrophorus. P. bakeri has been found on the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) and cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) in Georgia South Carolina Texas and Florida and on Oryzomys couesi in Colima. It was formerly placed in the genus Listrophorus.