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Ascoschoengastia latyshevi

Description

Ascoschoengastia latyshevi (Schluger, 1955)

(Fig. 49)

Neoschoengastia latyshevi Schluger, 1955: 204, figs. 331–333.

Ascoschoengastia (Paralaurentella) latyshevi, Kepka 1964a: 584, fig. 11.

Ascoschoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) latyshevi, Kudryashova 1979: 72; Kolebinova 1992: 133, fig. 67.

Ascoschoengastia latyshevi, Kudryashova 1998: 284, fig. 243.

Diagnosis. SIF = 6B-N-3-3111.1000; fPp = B/B/BBB; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2; fSc: PL> AM> AL; Ip = 576–695; fD = 2H-(12–18)-(11–14)-(8–9)-(6–7)-…; DS = 50–58; VS = 43–48; NDV = 94–105. Standard measurements of one specimen from Turkey: AW 50, PW 57, SB 24, ASB 23, PSB 21, SD 44, P-PL 12, AP 23, AM 22, AL 23, PL 32, H 37, D min 23, D max 31, V min 17, V max 28, pa 216, pm 180, pp 205, Ip 601, DS 51, VS 43, NDV 94, TaIII 51, fD = 2H-15-11-8-7-5-3.

Type material (not examined). Holotype was not designated, type material is lost, and type locality is unknown.

Comparative material examined. Ten larvae (ZISP) ex Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp., RUSSIA: Stavropolskiy Krai, Pyatigorsk, Mashuk Mt, 44° 03' 18" N, 43° 06' 13" E, 700 m a.s.l., 10 June 1996, coll. AAS.

Material from Turkey examined. One larva (ZISP) ex Apodemus mystacinus, GümüŞhane Prov., UğurtaŞı, 1750 m a.s.l., 12 June 1998, coll. AAS.

Hosts. 14 rodent species, one soricomorph [Crocidura suaveolens (Pallas)], and two birds (Parus major L. and Sitta europaea L.) (Kudryashova 1998) plus Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston).

Distribution. France (Corsica), Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia (from European part to Sakhalin; to the north, up to Pskov and Leningrad Provinces), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. This species is here recorded from Turkey for the first time.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr & Daniel, Milan, 2012, 3216, pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 3216 on pages 74-75

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1996-06-10 , 1998-06-12
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Ascoschoengastia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Actinedida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Schluger
Species
latyshevi
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1996-06-10 , 1998-06-12
Taxonomic concept label
Ascoschoengastia latyshevi (Schluger, 1955) sec. Stekolnikov & Daniel, 2012

References

  • Schluger, E. G. (1955) Superfamily Trombeae. I. Family Trombiculidae. 1. Subfamily Trombiculinae - chigger mites. In: Kleshchi gryzunov fauny SSSR. Izdatel'stvo AN SSSR, Moscow, Leningrad, pp. 188 - 217. [In Russian]
  • Kepka, O. (1964 a) Die Trombiculinae (Acari, Trombiculidae) in Osterreich. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 23, 548 - 642.
  • Kudryashova, N. I. (1979) The contemporary state of study of trombiculid mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of the USSR fauna. Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Zooparazitologiya, 5, 5 - 112. [In Russian]
  • Kolebinova, M. G. (1992) Acariformes, Trombidioidea, Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae. In Aedibus Academie Scientiarium Bulgaricae, Sofia, 172 pp. [In Bulgarian]
  • Kudryashova, N. I. (1998) Chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 342 pp. [In Russian]