Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris
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Description
Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris (Walch, 1922)
Trombicula acuscutellaris Walch, 1922: 564, figs 22–25.
Trombicula acuscutellaris – Fuller 1952: 80.
Trombicula (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 43.
Blankaartia acuscutellaris – Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 233. — Zumpt 1961: 151. — Taufflieb 1969: 284. — Kudryashova 1998: 162, fig. 124.
Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 22.
HolotypeNo data (Fuller 1952).
DistributionCameroon (Yaoundé, Ngaoundéré), Central African Republic (Soulemaka), Congo (Djoue River, Méya, Pointe-Noire). This species was described from Sumatra and later recorded from many Asian and European countries (Fuller 1952; Kudryashova 1983; Ripka & Stekolnikov 2006).
HostsCentropus senegalensis, Ixobrychus minutus, Laniarius sp., Philomachus pugnax, Potamogale velox.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Blankaartia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walch
- Species
- acuscutellaris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris (Walch, 1922) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018
References
- Walch E. 1922. Over Trombicula deliensis n. sp., vermoedelijke overbrengster der Pseudotyphus, en andere Trombiculae van Deli (Eerste Mededeeling). Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 62 (5): 530 - 588.
- Fuller H. S. 1952. The mite-larvae of the family Trombiculidae in the Oudemans collection: taxonomy and medical importance. Zoologische Verhandelingen 18: 1 - 261.
- Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.
- Taufflieb R. & Mouchet J. 1959. Revue des Trombiculidae du Cameroun et description de huit especes et sous-especes nouvelles. Acarologia 1 (2): 228 - 245.
- 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.
- Taufflieb R. 1969. Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Acarina, Trombiculidae) et son extension au continent Africain. Acarologia 11 (2): 284 - 289.
- Kudryashova N. I. 1998. Chigger Mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.
- Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 c. Trombiculinae of the World. Synopsis with Generic, Subgeneric, and Group Diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco.
- Kudryashova N. I. 1983. Revizija roda Blankaartia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) fauny SSSR [A revision of the genus Blankaartia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from the fauna of the USSR]. Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University 20: 144 - 165.
- Ripka G. & Stekolnikov A. A. 2006. First finding of the chigger mite Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Acari Trombiculidae) on a human host in Europe. Belgian Journal of Entomology 8 (2): 147 - 151.