Leptotrombidium scutellare
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Leptotrombidium scutellare (Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura, Tamiya and Tenjin, 1921)
Trombicula scutellaris Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura, Tamiya and Tenjin, 1921: 575; Gunther 1952: 13.
Trombicula (Leptotrombidium) scutellaris: Womersley 1952: 58, pl. 6 (A–E); Wharton & Fuller 1952: 55; Sasa & Jameson 1954: 309, fig. 40; Womersley & Audy 1957: 257; Hsu & Chen 1957: 250, figs. 23–30; Chen & Hsu 1958a: 411.
Leptotrombidium scutellaris: Radford 1954: 260.
Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) scutellare: Lakshana 1973: 9; Wen 1984b: 309; Li et al. 1997: 169, fig. 2-1-89; Chau et al. 2007: 58, fig. 27; Chung et al. 2015a: 1250; 2015b: 81, fig. 20.
Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) scutellare scutellare: Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 315, pl. 47.
Leptotrombidium scutellare: Stekolnikov 2013: 126; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 324.
Trombicula (Leptotrombidium) scutellaris var. basoglabrosis Chen, Hsu and Wang, 1956: 152, figs. 11–16; Chen & Hsu 1958a: 412.
Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) scutellare basoglabrose: Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 321, pl. 173.
Leptotrombidium basoglabrose: Stekolnikov 2013: 126.
Type deposition. T. scutellaris: Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Tokyo (lectotype); T. scutellaris var. basoglabrosis: ZSM.
Type data. T. scutellaris: ex Microtus montebelli, Japan, Yamagata Prefecture, Yachi; T. scutellaris var. basoglabrosis: ex Rattus losea (syn. Rattus losea exiguus), China, Fujian Province, Fuzhou.
Hosts. RODENTIA: Apodemus agrarius, A. argenteus, A. chevrieri, A. draco, A. speciosus, Bandicota indica, Berylmys berdmorei, B. bowersi, Callosciurus caniceps, C. erythraeus, C. finlaysoni, Dremomys rufigenis, Eothenomys chinensis, E. melanogaster, E. miletus, Leopoldamys edwardsi, L. sabanus, Maxomys alticola, M. rajah, M. surifer, Menetes berdmorei, Microtus montebelli, Mus musculus, Myodes rufocanus, M. smithii, Niviventer confucianus, N. fulvescens, N. niviventer, Rattus andamanensis, R. losea, R. nitidus, R. norvegicus, R. rattus, R. tanezumi, Sciurus lis; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia belangeri chinensis, T. glis; SORICOMORPHA: Crocidura dsinezumi, Hylomys suillus pegunensis, Suncus murinus, Urotrichus talpoides; ERINACEOMORPHA: Hylomys suillus; LAGOMORPHA: Lepus brachyurus, Ochotona hyperborea; PRIMATES: Homo sapiens, Macaca mulatta; CARNIVORA: Arctogalidia trivirgata, Canis lupus familiaris, Felis catus, Melogale personata, Mustela itatsi, M. sibirica, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus; ARTIODACTYLA: Capra hircus, Tragulus javanicus; AVES: Anthus hodgsoni, Bambusicola thoracicus, Chalcophaps indica, Cochoa purpurea, Francolinus pintadeanus, Myiomela leucura, Niltava sundara, Pellorneum ruficeps, P. tickelli, Polyplectron bicalcaratum, Stachyris nigriceps, Turdus celaenops, T. obscurus, Zoothera dauma.
Distribution. China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
Remarks. I follow here the opinion of Wen (1984b) who referred to T. (L.) scutellaris var. basoglabrosis as a synonym of L. scutellare.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Leptotrombidium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura, Tamiya and Tenjin
- Species
- scutellare
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptotrombidium scutellare (Nagayo, 1921) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021
References
- Nagayo, M., Miyagawa, Y., Mitamura, T., Tamiya, T. & Tenjin, S. (1921) Five species of tsutsugamushi (the carrier of Japanese river fever) and their relation to the tsutsugamushi disease. American Journal of Hygiene, 1, 569 - 591. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / oxfordjournals. aje. a 118053
- 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.
- Wharton, G. W. & Fuller, H. S. (1952) A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 4, 1 - 185.
- Sasa, M. & Jameson, E. W. (1954) The trombiculid mites of Japan. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 28, 247 - 321.
- 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.
- Chen, H. T. & Hsu, P. K. (1957) Scrub mites from mammals and birds including the description of three new species. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 9, 379 - 404. [in Chinese]
- Chen, H. T. & Hsu, P. K. (1958 a) Species of trombiculid larvae and their distribution. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 10, 404 - 415. [in Chinese]
- 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
- Lakshana, P. (1973) A checklist of the trombiculid mites of Thailand (Prostigmata: Trombiculidae). US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, 45 pp.
- Li, J., Wang, D. & Chen, X. (1997) Trombiculid mites of China: Studies on vector and pathogen of tsutsugamushi disease. Guangdong Science and Technology Press, Guangzhou, 570 pp. [in Chinese]
- Chau, N. V., Hien, D. S. & Van, N. T. (2007) Fauna of Vietnam. 16. Trombiculidae-Acarina, Siphonaptera. Science and Technics Publishing House, Ha Noi, 209 pp.
- Chung, L. H., Wu, W. J., Kuo, C. C. & Wang, H. C. (2015 a) A checklist of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenh ˆ kiidae) from Taiwan, with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 52, 1241 - 1253. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jme / tjv 139
- Chung, L. H., Wu, W. J. & Wang, H. C. (2015 b) Chigger mite fauna of Taiwan (Acari: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae). Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, 177 pp.
- 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.
- Stekolnikov, A. A. (2013) Leptotrombidium (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the World. Zootaxa, 3728 (1), 1 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3728.1.1
- Chaisiri, K., Stekolnikov, A. A., Makepeace, B. L. & Morand, S. (2016) A revised checklist of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Thailand, with the description of three new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 53, 321 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jme / tjv 244
- Chen, H. T., Hsu, P. K. & Wang, T. (1956) Five species and varieties of trombiculid mites from China. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 8, 149 - 160. [in both Chinese and English]