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Gahrliepia fletcheri Gater 1932

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Gahrliepia fletcheri Gater, 1932

Gahrliepia fletcheri Gater, 1932: 161, fig. 9; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 140, pl. XIII (3).

Gateria fletcheri: Thor & Willmann 1947: 339, fig. 405; Fuller 1952: 218; Gunther 1952: 47; Wharton & Fuller 1952: 93; Radford 1954: 270, fig. 105.

Gahrliepia (Gateria) fletcheri: Womersley 1952: 311, pl. 83 (F–H); Vercammen-Grandjean 1968b: 116.

Gahrliepia (Gahrliepia) fletcheri: Traub & Morrow 1955: 55, figs. 159–166; Audy 1957: 273; Womersley & Audy 1957: 285; Nadchatram 1972: 194; Lakshana 1973: 22; Ahamad et al. 2013: 140; Mohd Zain et al. 2015: tab. 1.

Gahrliepia fletcheri: Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 409, fig. 134; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 333.

Gateria spinulosa Radford, 1946b: 252, figs. 11, 12; Gunther 1952: 48; Radford 1954: 270.

Type deposition. G. fletcheri: BMNH 1932.7.18.22; G. spinulosa: BMNH 1948.2.3.14.

Type data. G. fletcheri: ex Rattus tanezumi (syn. Rattus rattus diardii), Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; G. spinulosa: ex Suncus murinus (syn. Suncus caeruleus fulvocinereus), India, Manipur State, Imphal.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Berylmys bowersi, Callosciurus caniceps concolor, Lenothrix canus, Leopoldamys sabanus, Maxomys surifer, Rattus argentiventer, R. exulans, R. rattus, R. tanezumi, Rhinosciurus laticaudatus, Sundamys muelleri; SORICOMORPHA: Suncus murinus; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis, T. minor; CHIROPTERA: Hipposideros cervinus.

Distribution. Burma, India, Malaysia, Singapore, 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 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Biodiversity

Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Gahrliepia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gater
Species
fletcheri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gahrliepia fletcheri Gater, 1932 sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

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