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Schoengastiella wansoni Wolfs & Vercammen-Grandjean 1953

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Description

Schoengastiella wansoni Wolfs & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1953

Schoengastiella wansoni Wolfs & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1953: 207, figs 1–7.

Gahrliepia (Schoengastiella) wansoni – Zumpt 1961: 173. — Taufflieb 1964: 460.

Holotype

RMCA (not found).

Material revised

One specimen from RMCA (No. 82324), ex Pelomys fallax, collected 9 October 1953, designated as “topotype 8”, labeled by the hand of Vercammen-Grandjean, not suitable for examination. One specimen from BMNH (1956.9.15.60), ex Crocidura sp., collected 22 February 1954, designated as “topotype 25”.

Distribution

DR Congo (Bukavu). This species was also recorded in Kyrgyzstan (Osh and Aravan) on Crocidura suaveolens and Meriones libycus (Kudryashova 1998).

Hosts

Crocidura sp., Pelomys fallax, Rattus rattus (type host). The first two records are added on the basis of material revised.

Remarks

Described from a single specimen.

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 33-34, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/486DBB53FFBAFFA588CEF906DD37FC84

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3829724 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B454C32BFF9AFF848951FFD6DF63FFD9 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A244F97F-8CEB-40CE-A182-7E5440337CAA (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/486DBB53FFBAFFA588CEF906DD37FC84 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164160481 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22091/taxon/486DBB53FFBAFFA588CEF906DD37FC84.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Walchiidae
Genus
Schoengastiella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Actinedida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wolfs & Vercammen-Grandjean
Species
wansoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Schoengastiella wansoni Wolfs, 1953 sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Wolfs J. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1953. Two trombiculid larvae (Acarina: Trombidiidae) from Costermansville (Kivu Province, Belgian Congo) of which one is a new species: Schoengastiella wansoni n. sp. Parasitology 43 (3 - 4): 207 - 209. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000018552
  • Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1953. Un nouveau biotope parasitaire des Trombiculidae larvaires (Acarina - Trombiculidae) chez les rongeurs du Ruanda-Urundi. Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines 48: 17 - 29.
  • 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.
  • Taufflieb R. 1964. Les Schoengastiella (Acarina, Trombiculidae) de la Region Subsaharienne. Acarologia 6 (3): 455 - 475.
  • Kudryashova N. I. 1998. Chigger Mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.