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Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris

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Description

Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris (Walch, 1922)

Trombicula acuscutellaris Walch, 1922: 564, figs 22–25.

Trombicula acuscutellaris – Fuller 1952: 80.

Trombicula (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 43.

Blankaartia acuscutellaris – Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 233. — Zumpt 1961: 151. — Taufflieb 1969: 284. — Kudryashova 1998: 162, fig. 124.

Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 22.

Holotype

No data (Fuller 1952).

Distribution

Cameroon (Yaoundé, Ngaoundéré), Central African Republic (Soulemaka), Congo (Djoue River, Méya, Pointe-Noire). This species was described from Sumatra and later recorded from many Asian and European countries (Fuller 1952; Kudryashova 1983; Ripka & Stekolnikov 2006).

Hosts

Centropus senegalensis, Ixobrychus minutus, Laniarius sp., Philomachus pugnax, Potamogale velox.

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/486DBB53FFE7FFF9889DFEDCDA3CFC0B

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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)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/486DBB53FFE7FFF9889DFEDCDA3CFC0B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164160549 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22091/taxon/486DBB53FFE7FFF9889DFEDCDA3CFC0B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Blankaartia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walch
Species
acuscutellaris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris (Walch, 1922) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018

References

  • Walch E. 1922. Over Trombicula deliensis n. sp., vermoedelijke overbrengster der Pseudotyphus, en andere Trombiculae van Deli (Eerste Mededeeling). Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 62 (5): 530 - 588.
  • Fuller H. S. 1952. The mite-larvae of the family Trombiculidae in the Oudemans collection: taxonomy and medical importance. Zoologische Verhandelingen 18: 1 - 261.
  • Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.
  • 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.
  • Taufflieb R. 1969. Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Acarina, Trombiculidae) et son extension au continent Africain. Acarologia 11 (2): 284 - 289.
  • Kudryashova N. I. 1998. Chigger Mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.
  • 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.
  • Kudryashova N. I. 1983. Revizija roda Blankaartia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) fauny SSSR [A revision of the genus Blankaartia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from the fauna of the USSR]. Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University 20: 144 - 165.
  • Ripka G. & Stekolnikov A. A. 2006. First finding of the chigger mite Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Acari Trombiculidae) on a human host in Europe. Belgian Journal of Entomology 8 (2): 147 - 151.