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Microtrombicula spicea

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Microtrombicula spicea (Gater, 1932)

Trombicula spicea Gater, 1932: 151, fig. 2; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 78, pl. II (4); Gunther 1952: 18. Trombicula (Eutrombicula) spicea: Thor & Willmann 1947: 288, fig. 345.

Trombicula (Trombicula) spicea: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 70; Womersley & Audy 1957: 258; Audy 1957: 234. Trombicula (Neotrombicula) spicea: Womersley 1952: 107, pl. 17 (G–I) (larva), 360, pl. 96 (G–L) (nymph). Neotrombicula spicea: Radford 1954: 259, fig. 33.

Microtrombicula (Scapuscutala) spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 120, pl. HH (8–10) (larva), AX (8–14) (nymph).

Microtrombicula spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 46; 1968b: 70; Lakshana 1973: 14.

Microtrombicula (Microtrombicula) spicea: Wen 1984b: 315; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 244, fig. 77.

Type deposition. BMNH 1932.7.18.6.

Type data. Ex Lenothrix canus (syn. Rattus malaisia), Malaysia, Selangor State, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Callosciurus erythraeus, Hadromys humei, Hylopetes phayrei, Lenothrix canus, Maxomys surifer, Menetes berdmorei, Rattus rattus, R. tanezumi, Sundamys muelleri; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis; SORICOMORPHA: Suncus murinus.

Distribution. Ceylon, China, India, Malaysia, 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 pages 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Microtrombicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
BMNH 1932.7
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gater
Species
spicea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Microtrombicula spicea (Gater, 1932) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • Gater, B. A. R. (1932) Malayan trombidiid larvae, part I. (Acarina: Trombidiidae) with descriptions of seventeen new species. Parasitology, 24, 143 - 174. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000020515
  • Womersley, H. & Heaslip, W. G. (1943) The Trombiculinae (Acarina) or itch-mites of the Austro-Malayan and Oriental regions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 67, 68 - 142.
  • 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.
  • Thor, S. & Willmann, C. (1947) Acarina. Trombidiidae. In: Schulze, F. E., K ʾ kenthal, W. & Heider, K. (Eds.), Das Tierreich. Vol. 71 b. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, pp. 187 - 544. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / 9783111625423
  • Wharton, G. W. & Fuller, H. S. (1952) A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 4, 1 - 185.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. (1965 a) Revision of the genera: Eltonella Audy, 1956 and Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950, with descriptions of fifty new species and transferal of subgenus Chiroptella to genus Leptotrombidium (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia, 7 (Supplement), 34 - 257.
  • 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.
  • Lakshana, P. (1973) A checklist of the trombiculid mites of Thailand (Prostigmata: Trombiculidae). US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, 45 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.