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Leptotrombidium burmense

Description

Leptotrombidium burmense (Ewing, 1945)

Trombicula burmensis Ewing, 1945: 63, fig. 1 (left); Gunther 1952: 16; Goff 1989: 100.

Trombicula (Trombicula) burmensis: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 63.

Trombicula (Leptotrombidium) burmensis: Womersley 1952: 74, pl. 9 (G–K) (larva), 348, pl. 91 (H–L) (nymph); Womersley & Audy 1957: 255; Audy 1957: 228.

Leptotrombidium burmensis: Radford 1954: 260.

Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) burmense: Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 486, pl. 124; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 93.

Leptotrombidium burmense: Stekolnikov 2013: 42; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 323.

Type deposition. USNM.

Type data. Ex Rattus tanezumi (syn. Rattus rattus brunneusculus), Burma, Ting Hawk.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Rattus rattus, R. tanezumi, Sundamys muelleri.

Distribution. Burma, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand.

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 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Leptotrombidium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ewing
Species
burmense
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptotrombidium burmense (Ewing, 1945) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • Ewing, H. E. (1945) Two new trombiculid mite larvae (chiggers) from Burma. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 47, 63 - 65.
  • 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.
  • Wharton, G. W. & Fuller, H. S. (1952) A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 4, 1 - 185.
  • 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.
  • Womersley, H. & Audy, J. R. (1957) Malaysian Parasites-XXVII. The Trombiculidae (Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific Region: A revised and annotated list of the species in Womersley, 1952, with descriptions of larvae and nymphs. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, 28, 231 - 296.
  • 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
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. & Langston, R. L. (1976) The chigger mites of the World (Acarina: Trombiculidae et Leeuwenhoekiidae). III. Leptotrombidium complex. George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California, 1061 pp.
  • Fernandes S. J., S. & Kulkarni, S. M. (2003) Studies on the trombiculid mite fauna of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 212, 1 - 539.
  • Stekolnikov, A. A. (2013) Leptotrombidium (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the World. Zootaxa, 3728 (1), 1 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3728.1.1
  • Chaisiri, K., Stekolnikov, A. A., Makepeace, B. L. & Morand, S. (2016) A revised checklist of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Thailand, with the description of three new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 53, 321 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jme / tjv 244