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Chiroptella insolli

Description

Chiroptella insolli (Philip and Traub, 1950)

Trombicula insolli Philip and Traub, 1950: 32, fig. 2; Gunther 1952: 18; Womersley 1952: 128, pl. 23 (F–H); Audy 1952: 134, fig. 4; Radford 1954: 257; Goff 1989: 112.

Trombicula (Trombicula) insolli: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 66; Audy 1957: 233; Womersley & Audy 1957: 258.

Chiroptella (Chiroptella) insolli: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 64; 1968b: 81; Wen 1984b: 323.

Leptotrombidium (Chiroptella) insolli: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 50, pl. A (1, 6).

Chiroptella insolli: Brown & Goff 1988a: 222; Li et al. 1997: 254, fig. 2-6-6.

Type deposition. USNM.

Type data. Ex Eonycteris spelaea, Malaysia, Selangor State, Batu Caves.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Rattus rattus; CHIROPTERA: Eonycteris spelaea, Hipposideros diadema griseus, Taphozous melanopogon.

Distribution. China, Malaysia, Philippines.

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 104, 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
Chiroptella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Philip and Traub
Species
insolli
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Chiroptella insolli (and, 1950) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

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  • 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.
  • Audy, J. R. (1952) Trombiculid mites infesting bats in Malaya, with descriptions of three new species. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 24, 132 - 159.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Brown, W. A. & Goff, M. L. (1988 a) Chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) of Leyte Island, Philippine Islands with descriptions of five new species and a key to the genera and species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 25, 214 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 25.4.214
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