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Microtrombicula mini ( Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957 ), 2018

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 159-160

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.395

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A244F97F-8CEB-40CE-A182-7E5440337CAA

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3849005

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scientific name

 Microtrombicula mini ( Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957 )
status

comb. nov.

Microtrombicula mini ( Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957) View in CoL comb. nov.

Trombicula mini Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957: 486 , figs 1D–F, 2C–E.

Trombicula mini – Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 231. — Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 131. — Zumpt 1961: 137.

Eltonella (Eltonella) mini – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 60, pl. D; 1965c: 42.

Holotype

RMCA (original data), RML 31305 ( Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a).

Material revised

Three specimens ( Nos 135.271–135.273 , labeled as “ Eltonella mini ”) plus one specimen (No. 87519 , labeled as “ Trombicula (Pentacula) rossi mini ”) from RMCA, all from type host and locality.

Distribution

Uganda (Kaabong), Tanzania (Pemba Island).

Host

Procaviidae gen. sp.

Audy J. R. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1961 a. African Trombiculidae (Acarina). 1. An interim note on the genus Trombicula Berlese and the subgenus Microtrombicula Ewing. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (12): 125 - 133. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 10520 / AJA 03040798 _ 814 [accessed 4 December 2017].

Taufflieb R. & Mouchet J. 1959. Revue des Trombiculidae du Cameroun et description de huit especes et sous-especes nouvelles. Acarologia 1 (2): 228 - 245.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. & Brennan J. M. 1957. Eight new chiggers from East Africa and a new genus, Trombigastia (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50 (5): 484 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 50.5.484

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 a. Revision of the genera: Eltonella Audy, 1956 and Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950, with descriptions of fifty new species and transferal of subgenus Chiroptella to genus Leptotrombidium (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia 7 (suppl.): 34 - 257.

Zumpt F. (ed.) 1961. The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 1: Chelicerata. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research 11 (50): 1 - 457.

RMCA

Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
RMCA

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Trombiculidae

SubFamily

Trombiculinae

Tribe

Trombiculini

Genus

Microtrombicula

Specimens