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Schoengastia radfordi Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean 1954

  • 1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.

Description

Schoengastia radfordi Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1954

Schoengastia radfordi Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1954a: 198, fig.

Schoengastia radfordi – Abonnenc & Taufflieb 1957a: 564, figs 5–6.

Schoengastia radfordi radfordi – Vercammen-Grandjean 1958b: 634, pls 1, 8. — Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 239.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) radfordi – Zumpt 1961: 158. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 82.

Holotype

RMCA 76221.

Material revised

Holotype and 14 paratypes from RMCA, including five nymphs.

Distribution

Rwanda (Butare, Musha), DR Congo (Beni, Bukavu, Matadi, Mushweshwe), Chad (Léré), Cameroon (Yaoundé).

Hosts

Aethomys bocagei (Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959), A. chrysophilus (Zumpt 1961), Arvicanthis abyssinicus (original data), A. niloticus (Zumpt 1961), Cricetomys emini (Vercammen-Grandjean 1958b), C. gambianus (Zumpt 1961), Crocidura sp., Dasymys incomtus, Lophuromys aquilus (Vercammen-Grandjean 1958b), L. flavopunctatus (Zumpt 1961), Mastomys coucha (Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959), M. natalensis (Zumpt 1961), Numida meleagris, Oenomys hypoxanthus, Otomys irroratus, Pelomys fallax, Pternistis bicalcaratus.

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 86, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RMCA
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Schoengastia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
RMCA 76221
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean
Species
radfordi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Schoengastia radfordi Jadin, 1954 sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1954. La nymphe de Fainiella Womersleyi (Trombidiidae - Acarina). Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines 49 (1 - 2): 29 - 32.
  • Jadin J. B. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1954 a. Cinq nouvelles especes de Trombiculides (Acarina), Trombidiidae du Ruanda-Urundi et creation d'un genre nouveau: Schoutedenichia. Annales du Musee royal du Congo belge, nouvelle serie in- 4 °, Sciences zoologiques 1: 194 - 206. (Miscellanea zoologica H. Schouteden)
  • Abonnenc E. & Taufflieb R. 1957 a. Deux Trombiculides nouveaux de la region du Tchad, Euschoengastia pilosa n. sp. et Trombicula youhensis n. sp. Presence de Schoengastia radfordi Jadin et Vercammen- Grandjean, 1954. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique 50 (4): 556 - 567.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1958 b. Revue des Schoengastia centrafricains et remaniements divers de cet important genre (Acarina - Trombiculidae). Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparee 33 (5 - 6): 619 - 670.
  • Taufflieb R. & Mouchet J. 1959. Revue des Trombiculidae du Cameroun et description de huit especes et sous-especes nouvelles. Acarologia 1 (2): 228 - 245.
  • 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.