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Leptotrombidium fletcheri

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Leptotrombidium fletcheri (Womersley and Heaslip, 1943)

Trombicula fletcheri Womersley and Heaslip, 1943: 86, fig. 4, pl. III (8); Radford 1954: 250.

Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) fletcheri fletcheri: Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 301, pls. 38, 39. Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) fletcheri: Brown 1992: 290.

Leptotrombidium fletcheri: Stekolnikov 2013: 93.

Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) fletcheri francolini Wen and Xiang, 1984a: 213, fig. III-24; Wen 1984b: 306.

Type deposition. IMR (lectotype).

Type data. L. fletcheri: ex Rattus rattus, Malaysia, Selangor State, Sungei Buloh; L. fletcheri francolini: ex Francolinus pintadeanus, China, Yunnan Province.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Apomys insignis, Bullimus bagobus, Melomys sp., Rattus argentiventer, R. everetti, R. exulans, R. mordax, R. praetor, R. rattus, R. sordidus, R. tanezumi, R. tiomanicus, Sundasciurus mindanensis, Uromys caudimaculatus; CHIROPTERA: Haplonycteris sp.; SCANDENTIA: Urogale everetti; PERAMELEMORPHIA: Echymipera kalubu cockerelli; DIPROTODONTIA: Dactylopsila trivirgata; AVES: Francolinus pintadeanus, Rallus torguatus sanfordi.

Distribution. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, 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 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E016879A6673292733F3A90BFC4E1C3A

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Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AFDC76FF900269FF729A9F1AC077C1 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4448915 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1C2FFFE2660029543364AB29FF97180E (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/E3540F07-4CF6-4EF2-A533-64A2D49D68FF (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/E016879A6673292733F3A90BFC4E1C3A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/177124549 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/8656/taxon/E016879A6673292733F3A90BFC4E1C3A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
IMR
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Leptotrombidium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Womersley and Heaslip
Species
fletcheri
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptotrombidium fletcheri (and, 1943) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • 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.
  • 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. & Langston, R. L. (1976) The chigger mites of the World (Acarina: Trombiculidae et Leeuwenhoekiidae). III. Leptotrombidium complex. George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California, 1061 pp.
  • Brown, W. A. (1992) Description of six new species of the genus Leptotrombidium from Mindanao Island and notes on the medically important genera of chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the Philippine Islands. Journal of Medical Entomology, 29, 284 - 292. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 29.2.284
  • Stekolnikov, A. A. (2013) Leptotrombidium (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the World. Zootaxa, 3728 (1), 1 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3728.1.1
  • Xiang, R. J. & Wen, T. H. (1984 a) Note on Leptotrombidium (L.) miculum arvinum. In: Wen, T. H. (Ed.), Sand mites of China (Acariformes: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). Hue Lin Publishing House, Shanghai, pp. 260. [in Chinese]