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Kayella masta Stekolnikov 2021, comb. nov.

Description

Kayella masta (Traub and Sundermeyer, 1950), comb. nov.

Ascoschoengastia masta Traub and Sundermeyer, 1950: 35, figs. 1–4; Wharton & Fuller 1952: 71; Radford 1954: 264; Audy 1957: 261.

Neoschoengastia masta: Gunther 1952: 35.

Schoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) masta: Womersley 1952: 183, pl. 68 (A–D).

Euschoengastia masta: Radford 1954: 265.

Ascoshoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) masta: Womersley & Audy 1957: 278.

Cordiseta (Kayella) masta: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 109; 1968b: 100.

Type deposition. USNM.

Type data. Ex Rattus rattus, Burma, Myitkyina.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Rattus rattus; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia belangeri; SORICOMORPHA: Crocidura sp.

Distribution. Burma.

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 88, 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
Kayella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stekolnikov
Species
masta
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Kayella masta (and, 1950) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • Traub, R. & Sundermeyer, E. (1950) A new species of Ascoschoengastia from north Burma (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 17, 35 - 38.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.