Trombicula spicea Gater, 1932: 151, fig. 2; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 78, pl. II (4); Gunther 1952: 18. Trombicula (Eutrombicula) spicea: Thor & Willmann 1947: 288, fig. 345.
Trombicula (Trombicula) spicea: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 70; Womersley & Audy 1957: 258; Audy 1957: 234. Trombicula (Neotrombicula) spicea: Womersley 1952: 107, pl. 17 (G–I) (larva), 360, pl. 96 (G–L) (nymph). Neotrombicula spicea: Radford 1954: 259, fig. 33.
Microtrombicula (Scapuscutala) spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 120, pl. HH (8–10) (larva), AX (8–14) (nymph).
Microtrombicula spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 46; 1968b: 70; Lakshana 1973: 14.
Microtrombicula (Microtrombicula) spicea: Wen 1984b: 315; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 244, fig. 77.
Type deposition. BMNH 1932.7.18.6.
Type data. Ex Lenothrix canus (syn. Rattus malaisia), Malaysia, Selangor State, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Hosts. RODENTIA: Callosciurus erythraeus, Hadromys humei, Hylopetes phayrei, Lenothrix canus, Maxomys surifer, Menetes berdmorei, Rattus rattus, R. tanezumi, Sundamys muelleri; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis; SORICO- MORPHA: Suncus murinus.
Distribution. Ceylon, China, India, Malaysia, Thailand.