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Microtrombicula mini Stekolnikov 2018, comb. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Description
Microtrombicula mini (Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957) comb. nov.
Trombicula mini Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957: 486, figs 1D–F, 2C–E.
Trombicula mini – Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 231. — Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 131. — Zumpt 1961: 137.
Eltonella (Eltonella) mini – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 60, pl. D; 1965c: 42.
Holotype
RMCA (original data), RML 31305 (Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a).
Material revised
Three specimens (Nos 135.271–135.273, labeled as “ Eltonella mini ”) plus one specimen (No. 87519, labeled as “ Trombicula (Pentacula) rossi mini ”) from RMCA, all from type host and locality.
Distribution
Uganda (Kaabong), Tanzania (Pemba Island).
Host
Procaviidae gen. sp.
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 pages 159-160, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- RMCA , RMCA, RML
- Material sample ID
- 135.271, 135.272, 135.273 , 87519 , RML 31305
- Scientific name authorship
- Stekolnikov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Microtrombicula
- Species
- mini
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtrombicula mini (Vercammen-Grandjean, 1957) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018
References
- Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. & Brennan J. M. 1957. Eight new chiggers from East Africa and a new genus, Trombigastia (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50 (5): 484 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 50.5.484
- Taufflieb R. & Mouchet J. 1959. Revue des Trombiculidae du Cameroun et description de huit especes et sous-especes nouvelles. Acarologia 1 (2): 228 - 245.
- Audy J. R. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1961 a. African Trombiculidae (Acarina). 1. An interim note on the genus Trombicula Berlese and the subgenus Microtrombicula Ewing. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (12): 125 - 133. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 10520 / AJA 03040798 _ 814 [accessed 4 December 2017].
- 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 a. Revision of the genera: Eltonella Audy, 1956 and Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950, with descriptions of fifty new species and transferal of subgenus Chiroptella to genus Leptotrombidium (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia 7 (suppl.): 34 - 257.