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.
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Identifiers
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.