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Herpetacarus (Herpetacarus) causicolus
Creators
- 1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Description
Herpetacarus (Herpetacarus) causicolus (Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1952)
Ascoschoengastia causicola Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1952: 633, pl. 12.
Euschoengastia causicola – Zumpt 1961: 163.
Herpetacarus (Herpetacarus) causicola – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 86; 1966: 637, pl. F2.
Holotype
RMCA 76143.
Material revised
Holotype and five paratypes from RMCA. One specimen from BMNH (1996.259), labeled by Vercammen-Grandjean as “ Euschoengastia causicola ”.
Distribution
Rwanda (Butare), DR Congo (Bukavu).
Hosts
Boaedon lineatus, Causus resimus, C. rhombeatus, Naja melanoleuca.
Notes
Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), pp. 1-233 in European Journal of Taxonomy 395 on page 66, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , RMCA
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Herpetacarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- 1996.259 , RMCA 76143
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean
- Species
- causicolus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Herpetacarus (Herpetacarus) causicolus (Jadin, 1952) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018
References
- Jadin J. B. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1952. Douze nouvelles especes de larves de Trombiculides (Acariens Prostigmates) du Ruanda-Urundi (Congo Belge). Annales de la Societe belge de Medecine tropicale 32: 605 - 641.
- Zumpt F. (ed.) 1961. The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 1: Chelicerata. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research 11 (50): 1 - 457.
- Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 c. Trombiculinae of the World. Synopsis with Generic, Subgeneric, and Group Diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco.
- Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1966. Revision of the genus Herpetacarus Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (Trombiculidae - Acarina). Acarologia 8 (4): 631 - 674.