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Helenicula signata

Description

Helenicula signata (Womersley, 1952)

Schoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) signata Womersley 1952: 174, pl. 41 (A–D).

Euschoengastia signata: Radford 1954: 266.

Euschoengastia (Helenicula) signata: Audy 1954: 153.

Globularoschoengastia signata: Chen & Hsu 1955: 126; Hsu & Chen 1957: 250.

Helenicula signata: Audy 1957: 266; Womersley & Audy 1957: 281; Nadchatram & Traub 1971: 563, figs. 1–7. Helenicula (Helenicula) signata: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 112; 1968b: 101.

Type deposition. No data.

Type data. Free larva collected on boots, Brunei and Malaysia, Labuan.

Hosts. SCANDENTIA: Tupaia montana.

Distribution. Brunei, Malaysia.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Helenicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Womersley
Species
signata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Helenicula signata (Womersley, 1952) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • Womersley, H. (1952) The scrub-typhus and scrub-itch mites (Trombiculidae, Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific region. Records of the South Australian Museum, 10, 1 - 435.
  • Radford, C. D. (1954) The larval genera and species of " harvest mites " (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Parasitology, 44, 247 - 276. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000018898
  • Audy, J. R. (1954) Malaysian Parasites-IX. Notes on the taxonomy of trombiculid mites, with description of a new subgenus. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, 26, 123 - 170. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 119064
  • Chen, H. T. & Hsu, P. K. (1955) Report on 12 species and varieties of chiggers in China, including six new species and two new varieties, and the creation of a new genus. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 7, 101 - 146. [in both Chinese and English]
  • Chen, H. T. & Hsu, P. K. (1957) Scrub mites from mammals and birds including the description of three new species. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 9, 379 - 404. [in Chinese]
  • Womersley, H. & Audy, J. R. (1957) Malaysian Parasites-XXVII. The Trombiculidae (Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific Region: A revised and annotated list of the species in Womersley, 1952, with descriptions of larvae and nymphs. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, 28, 231 - 296.
  • Nadchatram, M. & Traub, R. (1971) Chiggers of the genus Helenicula of the Old World including descriptions of 9 new species (Acarina: Prostigmata, Trombiculidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 8, 562 - 597. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 8.5.562
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965 b) Trombiculinae of the world. Synopsis with generic, subgeneric, and group diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California, 191 pp.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1968 b) The chigger mites of the Far East (Acarina: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, D. C., 135 pp.