Endotrombicula pillersi
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Description
Endotrombicula pillersi (Sambon, 1928)
Schoengastia pillersi Sambon, 1928: 122, fig. 9.
Schoengastia pillersi – Radford 1942: 67, fig. 51. — Thor & Willmann 1947: 306, fig. 365. — Lawrence 1949: 463.
Endotrombicula (Endotrombicula) pillersi – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 72.
Schoengastia (Endotrombicula) pillersi – Taufflieb 1960b: 224. — Zumpt 1961: 159. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 83.
Endotrombicula pillersi – Spieler & Linsenmair 1999: 152, fig. 1. — Wohltmann et al. 2007: 226, fig. 1.
Holotype
BMNH (Wharton & Fuller 1952).
Material revised
One specimen (obviously holotype) from BMNH, without accession number, ex Phrynobatrachus natalensis, White Volta valley, Ashanti, labeled “ Schoengastia pillersi Sambon, 1923, larva”, slide marked by red ink.
Distribution
Ghana (Kumasi, Black Volta), Ivory Coast (Comoé National Park Research Station, Lamto, Taï National Park), Benin, Guinea (Pic de Fon, Diécké Classified Forest).
Hosts
Amietophrynus maculatus, Petropedetes natator, Phrynobatrachus natalensis (type host), P. acridoides, P. alleni, P. calcaratus, P. francisci, P. latifrons, P. phyllophilus, P. plicatus, P. tokba, P. villiersi.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Scientific name authorship
- Sambon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Endotrombicula
- Species
- pillersi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Endotrombicula pillersi (Sambon, 1928) sec. Stekolnikov, 2018
References
- Sambon L. W. 1928. The parasitic acariens of animals and the part they play in the causation of the eruptive fevers and other diseases of man. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 22: 67 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00034983.1928.11684565
- 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
- Thor S. & Willmann C. 1947. Acarina. In: Schulze F. E., Kukenthal W. & Heider K. (eds) Das Tierreich 71. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin.
- Lawrence R. F. 1949. The larval trombiculid mites of South African vertebrates. Annals of the Natal Museum 11 (3): 405 - 486.
- Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.
- Taufflieb R. 1960 b. Etude d'une collection de Trombiculidae d'Afrique Occidentale. Acarologia 2 (2): 224 - 237.
- 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.
- Spieler M. & Linsenmair K. E. 1999. The larval mite Endotrombicula pillersi as a species-specific parasite of a West African savannah frog (Phrynobatrachus francisci). The American Midland Naturalist 142 (1): 152 - 161. https: // doi. org / 10.1674 / 0003 - 0031 (1999) 142 [0152: TLMEPA] 2.0. CO; 2
- Wohltmann A., du Preez L., Rodel M. O., Kohler J. & Vences M. 2007. Endoparasitic mites of the genus Endotrombicula Ewing, 1931 (Acari: Prostigmata: Parasitengona: Trombiculidae) from African and Madagascaran anurans, with description of a new species. Folia Parasitologica 54: 225 - 235. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / fp. 2007.031