Walchia Ewing, 1931

Stekolnikov, Alexandr & Daniel, Milan, 2012, 3216, Zootaxa 3216, pp. 1-104 : 94

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Genus Walchia Ewing, 1931 View in CoL

Walchia Ewing, 1931: 10 View in CoL ; Vercammen-Grandjean 1968: 110; Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean 1978: 111; Kudryashova

1998: 315; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 484; Wen 2004: 113. Gahrliepia (Walchia), Womersley 1952: 279 . Type species: Walchia ewingi Fuller, 1949 View in CoL (= Trombidium glabrum Walch , nom. praeocc., non Trombidium glabrum Dugès ), by original designation.

Diagnosis. SIF = 4(5)B-N-3-2(1)1(0)1(0)0.0000; fsp = 7.6.6; fPp = N/N/NNN (usually). Scutum pentagonal; AM seta absent. Sensilla clavate to globose.

Hosts. Mammals.

Distribution. Africa, Asia (south to 45° N), Australia, North America (1 species).

Species included. More than 80 ( Kudryashova 1998).

Ewing, H. E. (1931) A catalogue of the Trombiculinae, or chigger mites, of the New World with new genera and species and a key to the genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 80, 1 - 19.

Fernandes S. J., S. & Kulkarni, S. M. (2003) Studies on the trombiculid mite fauna of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 212, 1 - 539.

Fuller, H. S. (1949) A new name for the genotype of Walchia Ewing (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 62, 1 - 2.

Kolebinova, M. G. & Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1978) Five new larval Trombiculidae (Acarina) from Liberia and one from Zaire. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 6, 101 - 131.

Kudryashova, N. I. (1998) Chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 342 pp. [In Russian]

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1968) The chigger mites of the Far East (Acarina: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae). U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, D. C., 135 pp.

Wen, T. (2004) Classification of the sand-mite family Walchiidae (Acariformes: Trombiculoidea). Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, 22, 113 - 118.

Womersley, H. (1952) The scrub-typhus and scrub-itch mites (Trombiculidae, Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific region. Records of the South Australian Museum, 10, 1 - 435.