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Doloisia (Traubacarus) manipurensis

Description

Doloisia (Traubacarus) manipurensis (Radford, 1946)

Neoschoengastia manipurensis Radford, 1946b: 260, figs. 21, 22; Gunther 1952: 33.

Schoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) manipurensis: Womersley 1952: 204, pl. 53 (B–D).

Doloisia manipurensis: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 72; Radford 1954: 267, fig. 88; Lakshana 1973: 20; Wen 1984b: 303; Li et al. 1997: 342, fig. 2-23-12.

Traubacarus manipurensis: Audy & Nadchatram 1957a: 211, figs. 24, 25, 31, 33, 34; Audy 1957: 269.

Doloisia (Doloisia) manipurensis: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 105; 1968b: 97; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 348.

Type deposition. BMNH 1948.2.3.21 (lectotype).

Type data. Ex Rattus rattus (syn. Rattus rattus rufescens), India, Manipur State, Imphal.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Berylmys bowersi, Cannomys badius, Maxomys surifer, Rattus andamanensis, R. losea, R. tanezumi.

Distribution. China, India, Thailand.

Remarks. Rattus rattus rufescens was given as the type host because of an erroneous field identification. Later this name was replaced with Rattus tanezumi (syn. Rattus rattus bullocki) (Audy & Nadchatram 1957).

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Doloisia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
BMNH 1948.2
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Radford
Species
manipurensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Doloisia (Traubacarus) manipurensis (Radford, 1946) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

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  • Gunther, C. E. M. (1952) A check list of the trombiculid larvae of Asia and Australasia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 77, 1 - 60.
  • Womersley, H. (1952) The scrub-typhus and scrub-itch mites (Trombiculidae, Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific region. Records of the South Australian Museum, 10, 1 - 435.
  • Wharton, G. W. & Fuller, H. S. (1952) A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 4, 1 - 185.
  • Radford, C. D. (1954) The larval genera and species of " harvest mites " (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Parasitology, 44, 247 - 276. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000018898
  • Lakshana, P. (1973) A checklist of the trombiculid mites of Thailand (Prostigmata: Trombiculidae). US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, 45 pp.
  • Li, J., Wang, D. & Chen, X. (1997) Trombiculid mites of China: Studies on vector and pathogen of tsutsugamushi disease. Guangdong Science and Technology Press, Guangzhou, 570 pp. [in Chinese]
  • Audy, J. R. & Nadchatram, M. (1957 a) Malaysian Parasites-XXVI. New intranasal species of Traubacarus, n. gen. (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, 28, 187 - 230.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965 b) Trombiculinae of the world. Synopsis with generic, subgeneric, and group diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California, 191 pp.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1968 b) The chigger mites of the Far East (Acarina: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, D. C., 135 pp.
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