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Willmannium natalense Stekolnikov 2018, comb. nov.
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Description
Willmannium natalense (Lawrence, 1949) comb. nov.
Trombicula natalensis Lawrence, 1949: 413, fig. 3.
Trombicula natalensis – Lawrence 1951a: 114.
Trombicula (Trombicula) natalensis – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 67.
Leptotrombidium natalensis – Zumpt 1961: 141, fig. 84 (a).
Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) natalense – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 54.
Chiroptella (Willmannium) natalensis – Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 911, pl. 256.
Syntypes
NMSA 4789.
Distribution
South Africa (Noodsberg, Sterkfontein Caves, Town Bush cave, Howick).
Hosts
Myotis tricolor, Procavia capensis, Rhinolophus clivosus zuluensis.
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 189, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Willmannium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stekolnikov
- Species
- natalense
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Willmannium natalense (Lawrence, 1949) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018
References
- Lawrence R. F. 1949. The larval trombiculid mites of South African vertebrates. Annals of the Natal Museum 11 (3): 405 - 486.
- Lawrence R. F. 1951 a. New fur-mites from South African mammals. Annals of the Natal Museum 12 (1): 91 - 133.
- Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.
- 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. & Langston R. L. 1976. The Chigger Mites of the World (Acarina: Trombiculidae et Leeuwenhoekiidae). Vol. III. Leptotrombidium Complex. George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA.