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Helenicula pilosa

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Helenicula pilosa (Abonnenc and Taufflieb, 1957)

Euschoengastia (Helenicula) pilosa Abonnenc and Taufflieb, 1957: 556, figs 2–3.

Helenicula pilosa: Zumpt 1961: 153; Nadchatram & Traub 1971: 591; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 330; Stekolnikov 2018: 57.

Helenicula (Helenicula) pilosa: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 112.

Type deposition. MNHN.

Type data. Ex Numida meleagris, Chad, Léré.

Hosts. RODENTIA: Bandicota indica, Rattus tanezumi; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis; AVES: Numida meleagris.

Distribution. AFRICA: Chad; ASIA: Nepal, Thailand.

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 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN
Scientific name authorship
Abonnenc and Taufflieb
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Prostigmata
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Helenicula
Species
pilosa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Helenicula pilosa (and, 1957) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • Abonnenc, E. & Taufflieb, R. (1957) Deux trombiculides nouveaux de la region du Tchad, Euschoengastia pilosa n. sp. et Trombicula youhensis n. sp., presence de Schoengastia radfordi Jadin et Vercammen-Grandjean, 1954. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique, 50, 556 - 567.
  • Zumpt, F. (Ed.) (1961) The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). 1: Chelicerata. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 11 (50), 1 - 457.
  • 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
  • Chaisiri, K., Stekolnikov, A. A., Makepeace, B. L. & Morand, S. (2016) A revised checklist of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Thailand, with the description of three new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 53, 321 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jme / tjv 244
  • Stekolnikov, A. A. (2018) Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 395, 1 - 233. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2018.395
  • 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.