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Microtrombicula ugandae Stekolnikov 2018, comb. nov.

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Description

Microtrombicula ugandae (Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957) comb. nov.

Trombicula ugandae Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957: 484, figs 1A–B, F, 2A–B, E.

Trombicula ugandae – Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 131. — Zumpt 1961: 138, fig. 82d–e. Eltonella (Eltonella) ugandae ugandae – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 68, pls L–O; 1965c: 43.

Holotype

Private collection of Vercammen-Grandjean (original data), RMCA (Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a) (? – not found).

Distribution

Uganda (Entebbe), DR Congo (Shabunda, Luvungi, Bukavu).

Hosts

Canis lupus familiaris (type host), Centropus grillii, Oenomys hypoxanthus, Otomys tropicalis, Pelomys fallax.

Remarks

Described from a single specimen.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), pp. 1-233 in European Journal of Taxonomy 395 on page 174, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/486DBB53FF37FF298869FC93DD37F9FA

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3829724 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B454C32BFF9AFF848951FFD6DF63FFD9 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A244F97F-8CEB-40CE-A182-7E5440337CAA (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/486DBB53FF37FF298869FC93DD37F9FA (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164160980 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22091/taxon/486DBB53FF37FF298869FC93DD37F9FA.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Microtrombicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stekolnikov
Species
ugandae
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microtrombicula ugandae (Vercammen-Grandjean, 1957) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. & Brennan J. M. 1957. Eight new chiggers from East Africa and a new genus, Trombigastia (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50 (5): 484 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 50.5.484
  • Audy J. R. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1961 a. African Trombiculidae (Acarina). 1. An interim note on the genus Trombicula Berlese and the subgenus Microtrombicula Ewing. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (12): 125 - 133. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 10520 / AJA 03040798 _ 814 [accessed 4 December 2017].
  • Zumpt F. (ed.) 1961. The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 1: Chelicerata. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research 11 (50): 1 - 457.