Leptotrombidium Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura and Imamura, 1916

Stekolnikov, Alexandr & Daniel, Milan, 2012, 3216, Zootaxa 3216, pp. 1-104 : 71

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Genus Leptotrombidium Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura and Imamura, 1916

Trombicula (Leptotrombidium) Nagayo et al., 1916: 392 .

Leptotrombidium, Vercammen-Grandjean 1960 : tabl.; Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1971: 445; 1976: 229; Nadchatram 1984: 1107; Wang & Yu 1992: 389; Li et al. 1997: 99; Kudryashova 1979: 27; 1998: 93; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 89.

Type species: Trombidium akamushi Brumpt, 1910 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. SIF = 7B-B-3-2111.0000; fPp = N/N/B(N)N(B)N(B); usually fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2. Eyes 2 + 2. Scutum subrectangular. Sensilla flagelliform, branched.

Hosts. Mammals.

Distribution. Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia (1 species), North America.

Species included. More than 200 in Leptotrombidium s. str. ( Kudryashova 1998); more than 250 in case Ericotrombidium Vercammen-Grandjean and André, 1966 and Trombiculindus Radford, 1948 are considered as subgenera of Leptotrombidium ( Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003) .

References

Brumpt, E. (1910) Precis de parasitologie. Masson & Cie, Paris, 915 pp.

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.

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]

Li, J., Wang, D. & Chen, X. (1997) Trombiculid mites of China: studies on vector and pathogen of Tsutsugamushi disease. Guangdong Science and Technology Press, Guangzhou, 570 pp. [In Chinese]

Nadchatram, M. (1984) The natural history of the genus Leptotrombidium (Acari: Trombiculidae) with reference to scrub typhus. In: Griffiths, D. A. & Bowman, C. E. (Eds.) Acarology VI. Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester, England, pp. 1107 - 1113.

Nagayo, M., Miyagawa, Y., Mitamura, T. & Imamura, A. (1916) On Trombidium and the akamushi. Dobutsugaku Zasshi, 28, 379 - 394. [In Japanese]

Radford, C. D. (1948) New larval mites (Acarina: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekidae) from African hosts. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 118, 213 - 222.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1960) Introduction a un essai de classification rationelle des larves de Trombiculinae Ewing, 1944 (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Acarologia, 2, 469 - 471.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. & Andre, M. (1966) Introduction a la notion de complexe appliquee a la systematique des Trombiculidae (Acarina). Acarologia, 8, 62 - 70.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. & Langston, R. L. (1971) Revision of the Leptotrombidium generic complex, based on palpal setation combined with other morphological characters. Journal of Medical Entomology, 8, 445 - 449.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. & Langston, R. L. (1976) The chigger mites of the World (Acarina: Trombiculidae et Leeuwenhoekiidae). III. Leptotrombidium complex. George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 1061 pp.

Wang, D. Q. & Yu, Z. Z. (1992) Chigger mites of the genus Leptotrombidium: key to species and their distribution in China. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 6, 389 - 395.