Published January 16, 2018 | Version v1
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Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) aethomys

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) aethomys (Radford, 1942)

Neoschoengastia aethomyia Radford, 1942: 78, fig. 102.

Neoschoengastia aethomyia – Radford 1947: 598, figs 25–26.

Euschoengastia aethomyia – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 73. — Zumpt 1961: 161.

Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) aethomys – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 87. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1966: 641, pl. O1.

Holotype

BMNH 1946.12.18.3.

Material revised

Holotype (the slide includes two specimens, without any mark).

Distribution

South Africa (Bathurst).

Host

Micaelamys namaquensis.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Material sample ID
BMNH 1946.12.18.3
Scientific name authorship
Radford
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Herpetacarus
Species
aethomys
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) aethomys (Radford, 1942) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Radford C. D. 1942. The larval Trombiculinae (Acarina: Trombidiidae) with descriptions of twelve new species. Parasitology 34 (1): 55 - 81. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000015997
  • Radford C. D. 1947. New larval mites (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 116: 579 - 601. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1947. tb 00137. x
  • 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. 1966. Revision of the genus Herpetacarus Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (Trombiculidae - Acarina). Acarologia 8 (4): 631 - 674.