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Androlaelaps zuluensis

  • 1. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India pritha. bandyopadhyay 31 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2450 - 7880
  • 2. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India kkbckv 64 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5582 - 3560
  • 3. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Description

Androlaelaps zuluensis (Zumpt, 1950)

Hypoaspis (Androlaelaps) zuluensis Zumpt, 1950: 300.

Androlaelaps zuluensis.— Sandhu & Kapoor, 1976: 293; Bhat et al., 1983: 94; Moraes et al., 2022: 181.

Collection records in India: Ludhiana, Punjab, on northern palm squirrel Funambulus pennanti (Rodentia: Sciuridae) (Sandhu & Kapoor, 1976); Jammu & Kashmir, Udhampur, Uttar Pradesh, Tehri, on Rattus rattus and Mus platythrix (Rodentia: Muridae) (Bhat et al., 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna & Halliday, Bruce, 2023, Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 5249 (4) on page 403, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7694572

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References

  • Zumpt, F. (1950) Notes on parasitic mites: I. Some remarks on the family Laelaptidae (sensu Vitzthum 1943) with descriptions of three new species from African rodents. Parasitology, 40, 298 - 303. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000018163
  • Sandhu, P. S. & Kapoor, V. C. (1976) New record of acarine ectoparasites on the northern palm squirrel, Funambulus pennanti Wroughton from India. Entomological News, 87, 292 - 294.
  • Bhat, H. R., Kulkarni, S. M. & Mishra, A. C. (1983) Records of Mesostigmata, Ereynetidae and Pterygosomidae (Acarina) in Western Himalayas, Sikkim and Hill Districts of West Bengal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 80, 91 - 110.
  • Moraes, G. J. de, Moreira, G. F., Freire, R. A. P., Beaulieu, F., Klompen, H. & Halliday, B. (2022) Catalogue of the free-living and arthropod-associated Laelapidae Canestrini (Acari: Mesostigmata), with revised generic concepts and a key to genera. Zootaxa. [in press]