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Microtrombicula iecensis

Description

Microtrombicula iecensis (Taufflieb, 1960)

Trombicula (Microtrombicula) iecensis Taufflieb, 1960c: 476, pl. 3.

Microtrombicula (Microtrombicula) iecensis – Taufflieb 1965a: 26. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 90, pl. QQ. — Taufflieb et al. 1967: 119.

Microtrombicula iecensis – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 44. — Whitaker et al. 1983: 31.

Holotype

Institut d’Etudes Centrafricaines, Brazzaville (Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a).

Distribution

Congo (Brazzaville), Angola (Nhefo), Central African Republic (Bangui), Nigeria (Ibadan).

Hosts

Funisciurus bayonii, Graphiurus murinus, Nandinia binotata, Rattus rattus (type host).

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 153, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Microtrombicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Taufflieb
Species
iecensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microtrombicula iecensis (Taufflieb, 1960) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Taufflieb R. 1960 c. Notes sur les Trombiculidae (Acarina) de la region de Brazzaville. Description de trois nouvelles especes. Acarologia 2 (4): 472 - 479.
  • Taufflieb R. 1965 a. Contribution a l'etude des Trombiculidae (Acarina) d'Angola. Publicacoes culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 4095: 21 - 36.
  • Taufflieb R., Chippaux A. & Rickenbach A. 1967. Contribution a l'etude des ectoparasites de Vertebres en Republique Centrafricaine. Cahiers ORSTOM, serie Entomologie medicale et Parasitologie 5 (2): 115 - 125.
  • 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.
  • Whitaker J. O., Goff M. L. & Matthysse J. G. 1983. Chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae) from some small mammals from Nigeria. Entomological News 94 (1): 31 - 32.