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Schoengastia vandersandei

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Schoengastia vandersandei (Oudemans, 1905)

Thrombidium vandersandei Oudemans 1905: 216.

Schoengastia vandersandei: Oudemans 1910: 86; Thor & Willmann 1947: 299, fig. 354; Fuller 1952: 155, fig. 3; Gunther 1952: 23; Wharton & Fuller 1952: 87; Radford 1954: 267; Audy 1957: 250; Womersley & Audy 1957: 271; Goff 1979: 332.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) vandersandei: Womersley 1952: 155, pl. 32 (F–J); Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 81; 1968b: 88; Nadchatram et al. 1980: 272, figs. 9–16.

Schoengastia blestowei Gunther, 1939: 92, figs. 31, 34, 37; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 103; Gunther 1952: 24; Radford 1954: 266; Womersley & Audy 1957: 269; Audy 1957: 249.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) blestowei: Womersley 1952: 165, pl. 36 (A–E); Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 81.

Schoengastia blestowei var. megapodius Womersley and Heaslip, 1943: 104; Radford 1954: 266.

Type deposition. T. vandersandei: RMNH (lectotype; Fuller 1952), S. blestowei: CIH; S. blestowei var. megapodius: CIH.

Type data. T. vandersandei: ex man, Dutch New Guinea (Indonesia, West Papua Province); S. blestowe i: ex man, Papua New Guinea, Sepik District, Suein River; S. blestowei var. megapodius: ex Megapodius reinwardt (syn. Megapodius duperreyi), Papua New Guinea, Sepik District, Suein River.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Rattus exulans, R. leucopus, R. sordidus; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis; CARNIVORA: Canis lupus familiaris, Felis catus; PERAMELEMORPHIA: Echymipera kalubu; PRIMATES: Homo sapiens; AVES: Megapodius reinwardt.

Distribution. Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands.

Remarks. Schoengastia yeomansi Gunther, 1938 (nomen nudum) was properly described as S. blestowei Gunther, 1939; this species should not be mixed with Neoschoengastia yeomansi Gunther, 1939 (syn. Neoschoengastia jamesi Gunther, 1938, nomen nudum).

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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 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Schoengastia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Oudemans
Species
vandersandei
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species
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Schoengastia vandersandei (Oudemans, 1905) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

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  • Thor, S. & Willmann, C. (1947) Acarina. Trombidiidae. In: Schulze, F. E., K ʾ kenthal, W. & Heider, K. (Eds.), Das Tierreich. Vol. 71 b. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, pp. 187 - 544. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / 9783111625423
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