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Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa

Description

Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa (Jadin, Vercammen-Grandjean & Herman, 1954)

Euschoengastia paradoxa Jadin et al., 1954a: 273.

Schoutedenichia (Nasichia) paradoxa paradoxa – Vercammen-Grandjean 1958a: 79, figs 40–42.

Schoutedenichia (Nasichia) paradoxa – Zumpt 1961: 166, fig. 96e–f. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1975: 410, fig. D.

Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 102.

Holotype

RMCA 80509.

Material revised

Holotype and 30 paratypes from RMCA, including 11 nymphs.

Distribution

DR Congo (Bukavu, Kabunga, Kindu, Lwiro, Mbandaka).

Hosts

Arvicanthis abyssinicus (original data), A. niloticus (Zumpt 1961), Crocidura sp., Dasymys incomtus, Dendromus mesomelas, Felis catus, Grammomys dryas (original data), G. dolichurus (Zumpt 1961), Graphiurus sp., Lemniscomys striatus, L. griselda, Lophuromys aquilus (original data), L. flavopunctatus (Zumpt 1961), Mastomys coucha, Mus triton, Oenomys hypoxanthus, Otomys irroratus, Pelomys fallax, Rattus rattus.

Remarks

The deutonymph was described (Jadin et al. 1954a; Vercammen-Grandjean 1958a).

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 pages 109-110, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RMCA
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Schoutedenichia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
RMCA 80509
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Jadin, Vercammen-Grandjean & Herman
Species
paradoxa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa (Jadin, 1954) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1954. La nymphe de Fainiella Womersleyi (Trombidiidae - Acarina). Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines 49 (1 - 2): 29 - 32.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1958 a. Revision du genre Schoutedenichia Jad. et Verc. Annales du Musee royal du Congo belge, serie in- 8 65: 1 - 103.
  • 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.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1975. Some larval Trombiculidae of the Ethiopian Region (Acari). Revue de zoologie africaine 89 (2): 397 - 439.
  • 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.