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Cheladonta flava

Description

Cheladonta flava (Schluger, 1955)

Neoschoengastia flava Schluger, 1955: 205, figs. 334–335.

Cheladonta flava, Vshivkov & Schluger 1960: 297; Kudryashova 1979: 79; 1998: 264, fig. 224.

Diagnosis. SIF = 4B-N-(4–5)-2110.0000; fPp = B/B/BBB; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2; fSc: PL> AM> AL; Ip = 680–736; fD = 4H-(10–14)-(8–10)-(8–10)-6-…; DS = 37–46; VS = 30–39; NDV = 73–78. Standard measurements of specimens from Turkey are given in Table 29.

Note: For S n = 1, for other variables n = 3.

Type material (not examined). Syntypes are deposited in ZMMU. Type locality is Kantemir railroad station (46° 07' N, 30° 06' E) in Ukraine (Odessa Prov., Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Distr.).

Material from Turkey examined. 2 larvae (ZISP) ex Chionomys nivalis, Antalya Prov., 6 km SWW from Kizlarsivrisi Mt, 2135 m a.s.l., 26 April 2009, coll. AAS; 1 larva (ZISP) ex Microtus schidlovskii, Adana Prov., 2 km N from Karanfil Mt, 2135 m a.s.l., 2 May 2009, coll. AAS; 7 larvae (ZISP) ex M. schidlovskii, Mersin Prov., 12 km NW from Çamlıyayla (Namrun), 2467 m a.s.l., 11 May 2009, coll. AAS.

Hosts. Lepus europaeus Pallas, Spermophilus suslicus (Guldenstaedt), S. citellus (L.), S. pygmaeus (Pallas), Spalax microphthalmus Guldenstaedt, Ellobius talpinus (Pallas), Cricetus cricetus (L.), Cricetulus migratorius (Pallas), Microtus socialis (Pallas), M. arvalis (Pallas), Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout), Apodemus sylvaticus (L.), A. flavicollis (Melchior), and Sturnus vulgaris L. (Kudryashova 1998) plus Chionomys nivalis (Martins) and Microtus schidlovskii Argyropulo.

Distribution. Ukraine, Moldova, Russia (Stavropolskiy Krai). Kudryashova (1998) questioned records of Ch. flava in Azerbaijan, Tadjikistan, and Buryatia. This species is here recorded from Turkey for the first time.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr & Daniel, Milan, 2012, 3216, pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 3216 on pages 85-86

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2009-04-26 , 2009-05-02 , 2009-05-11
Verbatim event date
2009-04-26 , 2009-05-02 , 2009-05-11
Scientific name authorship
Schluger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Actinedida
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Cheladonta
Species
flava
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Cheladonta flava (Schluger, 1955) sec. Stekolnikov & Daniel, 2012

References

  • Schluger, E. G. (1955) Superfamily Trombeae. I. Family Trombiculidae. 1. Subfamily Trombiculinae - chigger mites. In: Kleshchi gryzunov fauny SSSR. Izdatel'stvo AN SSSR, Moscow, Leningrad, pp. 188 - 217. [In Russian]
  • Vshivkov, F. N. & Schluger, E. G. (1960) On the fauna of chigger mites of Crimea, p. 296 - 297. In: Problemy Parazitologii. Trudy 3 nauchnoi konferencii parazitologov USSR, Kiev, pp. 296 - 297. [In Russian]
  • Kudryashova, N. I. (1979) The contemporary state of study of trombiculid mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of the USSR fauna. Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Zooparazitologiya, 5, 5 - 112. [In Russian]
  • Kudryashova, N. I. (1998) Chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 342 pp. [In Russian]