Schoengastia gigantica Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958

Schoengastia gigantica Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958b: 640, pls 4, 8.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) gigantica – Zumpt 1961: 155. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 81. — Goff 1989: 109.

Holotype

USNM (Goff 1989) (? see below).

Material revised

One specimen (No. 113888, not suitable for examination) designated as “ typus ” and one specimen (No. 113887) designated as “ type ” and ringed by red lacquer, from RMCA .

Distribution

DR Congo (Lubero).

Hosts

Arvicanthis abyssinicus (original data), A. niloticus (Zumpt 1961), Lemniscomys striatus, Otomys tropicalis (original data), O. irroratus (Zumpt 1961) .