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Fonsecia palmella Brennan and Loomis
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Fonsecia palmella Brennan and Loomis
Barnwell Co., Carolina Bay, 23 July 2000, ex Eumeces latriceps (Schneider), coll. R.R. Montanuccii.
Larvae of F. palmella are mainly parasitic on birds, but this species also has been taken from rabbits and lizards (Loomis 1956; Dohany & Cromroy 1976).
Notes
Published as part of Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A. & Wrenn, William J., 2004, Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A., pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 647 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158298
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Brennan and Loomis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Fonsecia
- Species
- palmella
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Loomis, R. B. (1956) The chigger mites of Kansas (Acarina: Trombiculidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 37, 1195 - 1443.
- Dohany, A. L. & Cromroy, H. L. (1976) New records of chiggers (Acarina: Trombiculidae) from Florida. Florida Entomologist, 59, 183 - 190.