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Additional file 1. Sampling data of 12 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), a marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna) and their ticks.

Additional file 3. The morphological characteristics of ticks from 12 red foxes and a marble polecat in northwestern China.

Additional file 4. Phylogenetic tree of the 17-kDa-ompA-gltA-sca1 concatenated sequences of Rickettsia raoultii from Ixodes canisuga and Dermacentor marginatus ticks.

Additional file 2. Nested PCR protocol for the detection of rickettsiae in 13 wild carnivores as well as from their ticks, northern Xinjiang, China.

Macrocheles subbadius (Berlese, 1904) Distinguishing characters of female. All dorsal setae smooth and needle-like, except setae j1 which are smooth and robust. Ventral setae also smooth and needle-like, sternal shield ornamented with small pits. Ventrianal shield pentagonal with three pairs of needle-like setae anterior to anal opening (Figure 1, A & B). Notes. This is the species most frequently collected from the bodies of stable flies. This association was reported from Hungary (Erős & Mahunka 1971), France (Niogret et al. 2008), Slovakia (Ma����n 2003), Israel (Mumcuoglu & Braverman 2010), United Kingdom (McGarry & Baker 1997) and Canada (Beresford & Sutcliffe 2009). Macrocheles subbadius is a coprophilous detriticole species and a typical phoretic mite, which does not parasitize the stable fly, but use it only for transportation between different habitats (like dung pads, compost heaps etc.)., Published as part of Kontsch��n, Jen�� & Hornok, S��ndor, 2019, New records, a completed list and identification key of mites (Acari) associated with the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 3-11 in Acarologia 59 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20194306, http://zenodo.org/record/4502889, {"references":["Berlese A. 1904. Acari nuovi. Manipulus IIus. Redia, 1: 258 - 280.","Masan P. 2003. Macrochelid Mites of Slovakia (Acari, Mesostigmata, Macrochelidae). Bratislava, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. pp. 149.","Mumcuoglu K., Braverman Y. 2010. Parasitic and phoretic mites of Diptera in Israel and the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Israel J. Entomol., 40: 195 - 203.","McGarry J. W., Baker A. S. 1997. Observation on the mite fauna associated with adult Stomoxys calcitrans in the UK. Med. Vet. Entomol., 11: 159 - 164. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2915.1997. tb 00307. x","Beresford D. V., Sutcliffe J. F. 2009. The effect of Macrocheles muscaedomesticae and M. subbadius (Acarina: Macrochelidae) phoresy on the dispersal of Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera: Muscidae). Syst. Appl. Acarol., 23: 1 - 30. doi: 10.11158 / saasp. 23.1.1"]}

Halolaelps sexclavatus (Oudemans, 1902) Distinguishing characters of the deutonymphs. All dorsal setae short, smooth and needle-like. Ventral setae also smooth and needle-like, three pairs club-like setae visible on the gnathosoma (setae h4 or subcoxal setae), and on coxae II and III (Figure 1, C & D). Notes. This is the first report of this mite in association with the stable fly. The deutonymph of H. sexclavatus is known to be present on the body of various insect species (like: beetles Bahrami et al. 2011) or in bird nests (Kri��tof��k et al 2013), but it was never collected from stable flies. Nevertheless, McGarry & Baker (1997) listed a Halolaelaps species from this fly species in the UK. Halolaelps sexclavatus is not a parasitic mite: this species occurs in compost and dung, therefore we suppose that this species uses the host only for dispersal between different sites., Published as part of Kontsch��n, Jen�� & Hornok, S��ndor, 2019, New records, a completed list and identification key of mites (Acari) associated with the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 3-11 in Acarologia 59 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20194306, http://zenodo.org/record/4502889, {"references":["Oudemans A. C. 1902. New list of Dutch Acari, second part. With remarks on known and description of","Bahrami F., Arbabi M., Shoushtari R. V., Kazemi, S. 2011. Mesostigmatic mites associated with Coleoptera and biodiversity calculation of these mites phoretic on dung beetles in Golestan Province (North of Iran). Middle-East J. Sci. Res., 9 (3): 345 - 366.","Kristofik J., Masan P., Sustek Z., Nuhlickov S. 2013. Arthropods (Acarina, Coleoptera, Siphonaptera) in nests of hoopoe (Upupa epops) in Central Europe. Biol., Bratislava, 68 (1): 155 - 161.","McGarry J. W., Baker A. S. 1997. Observation on the mite fauna associated with adult Stomoxys calcitrans in the UK. Med. Vet. Entomol., 11: 159 - 164. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2915.1997. tb 00307. x"]}

Pediculaster mesembrinae (Canestrini, 1881) Distinguishing characters of the phoretomorphic female. First sternal plates with 6-6 setae. Setae e shorter than setae f, setae ps2 two times longer than setae ps1 and ps3 (Figure 2, A & B). Notes. This mite species was recorded from stable flies (McGarry & Baker 1997) in the UK. Pediculaster mesembrinae occurs in places where dung or dung inhabiting flies are found (Mahunka 1972). This species is not parasitic on stable flies, and similarly to the previously mentioned two species, uses them only for transportation., Published as part of Kontsch��n, Jen�� & Hornok, S��ndor, 2019, New records, a completed list and identification key of mites (Acari) associated with the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 3-11 in Acarologia 59 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20194306, http://zenodo.org/record/4502889, {"references":["Canestrini R. 1881. Contribuzione allo studio degli Acari parassiti degli insetti. Atti della Societ / l. Veneto-Trentina di Scienze Naturali, Padova, VII (II): 154 - 155; 168 - 169, Tav. 19, 22.","McGarry J. W., Baker A. S. 1997. Observation on the mite fauna associated with adult Stomoxys calcitrans in the UK. Med. Vet. Entomol., 11: 159 - 164. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2915.1997. tb 00307. x","Mahunka S. 1972. Tetuatkak - Tarsonemina. - Magyarorszag Allatvilaga (Fauna Hungariae), XVIII. 16. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 215."]}

Trichotrombidium muscarum (Riley, 1878) Distinguishing characters of the larvae. Scutellum 3.5 times wider than long, wider than scutum. Scutum and scutellum with punctuation on central part and with longitudinal striae on lateral parts. Number of dorsal setae 28, setae AM smooth, other setae on dorsum slightly barbed, trichobothria narrow and very finely barbed (Figure 2, C & D). Notes. This species is the senior synonym of T. hemistriatum (Womerslay, 1942) (Welbourn 1985) and T. rafieiae Saboori, 2002 (Hakimtabar & Saboori 2018). Kobulej (1951) described a new species Trichotrombidium muscae Kobulej, 1951, which is also a junior synonym of T. muscarum (Riley, 1878). Saboori (2002) mentioned T. muscarum in the key to Trichotrombidium species as T. hemistriatum Kobulej, 1951 which is an erroneous name (maybe mixed names of the species of Womersay and Kobulej). The name T. muscarum was also mentioned in Suhas and Rhao (1986) as ��� Trichotrombidium muscarum Kolonev ��� (sic!), which is another misuse of this name. This is a true parasitic species, known from Musca domestica only from Iran (Saboori 2002) and from Turkey (Karakurt & Sevsay 2013), and from a species of the family Ulidiidae (Diptera) (Hakimtabar & Saboori 2018), but never mentioned from stable fly. McGarry et al. (1992) reported Trichotrombidium muscarum (Riley) from flies from Libya and mentioned it from stable fly from Romania without citing references, so this association is questionable. The rate of the infection Only 5 stable flies were infested by mites from the collected 350 specimens. During our investigation of mites associated with stable flies only four mite species were collected. Two species were represented by only single specimens, namely the halolaelapid Halolaelaps sexclavatus and the siteroptid Pediculaster mesembrinae. The other two species were more abundant, one or two specimens of M. subbadius were found on the venter of the body of the flies (Figure 3). High numbers (8- 37 specimens) of T. muscarum infested the flies (Figure 4) and these were found all over the body, adhering to the membranous cuticle between the tergites and sternites of abdomen and the parts of thorax., Published as part of Kontsch��n, Jen�� & Hornok, S��ndor, 2019, New records, a completed list and identification key of mites (Acari) associated with the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 3-11 in Acarologia 59 (1) on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20194306, http://zenodo.org/record/4502889, {"references":["Riley 1878. First Annual report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Year 1887 relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust, 306 - 313.","Welbourn W. C. 1985. Phylogenetic studies of trombidioid mites. Dissertation. The Ohio State University, pp. 268.","Saboori A. 2002. Two new species of larval mites (Acari: Microtrombidiidae, Erythraeidae) from Iran. Biol., Bratislava, 57 (5): 547 - 552.","Kobulej T. 1951. Novi vis trombidiidnovo kleschcha. Eine neue Trombiiden-Art, Trichotrombidium muscae gen. n. et spec. n. - Microtrombidiinae Sig Thor, 1935. Acta Vet. Acad. Sci. Hung., 1: 83 - 105.","Suhas Y., Rhao K. J. 1986. Trichotrombidium muscarum Kolonev, a new acarine parasite on house fly. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 83: 446.","Berlese A. 1904. Acari nuovi. Manipulus IIus. Redia, 1: 258 - 280.","Karakurt I., Sevsay S. 2013. A new species of Trichotrombidium Kobulej, 1951 (Acari: Prostigmata: Microtrombidiidae) for the Turkish fauna. Mun. Ent. Zool., 8 (2): 739 - 744.","McGarry J. W., Gusbi A. M., Baker A., Hall M. J. R., el Megademi K. 1992. Phoretic and parasitic mites infesting the New World screwworm fly, Cochliomyia hominivorax, following sterile insect release in Libya. Med. Vet. Entomol., 6, 255 - 260. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2915.1992. tb 00615. x"]}

In order to obtain data on the occurrence of the protozoan parasite Neospora caninum as a potential factor in the aetiology of reproduction problems in cattle, 97 postabortion sera were examined by ISCOM ELISA and IFAT for the presence of antibodies in N. caninum. The results showed 10% and 9% seropositivity by the ELISA and IFAT, respectively. In 2 of the 10 seropositive cases no other fetopathogenic agents (such as Chlamydia sp., Leptospira spp. or bovine viral diarrhoea virus) were detected. These data confirm the presence of N. caninum in cattle in Hungary.