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Microtrombicula hexasternalis Vercammen-Grandjean 1965

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

Description

Microtrombicula hexasternalis Vercammen-Grandjean, 1965

Microtrombicula (Microtrombicula) hexasternalis Vercammen-Grandjean, 1965a: 87, pl. JJ.

Microtrombicula hexasternalis – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 44.

Holotype

RMCA 92896.

Material revised

Holotype and two more specimens from RMCA (Nos 92897–92898) labeled as “ Scapuscula (Verruscuta) hexasternalis ”.

Distribution

DR Congo (Bukavu).

Host

Lissonycteris angolensis.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RMCA
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Microtrombicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
92897-92898 , RMCA 92896
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Vercammen-Grandjean
Species
hexasternalis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Microtrombicula hexasternalis Vercammen-Grandjean, 1965 sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • 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.
  • 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.