Miyatrombicula ilesi ( Radford, 1948 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 177

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scientific name	Miyatrombicula ilesi ( Radford, 1948 )
status

Treatment

Miyatrombicula ilesi ( Radford, 1948) View in CoL

Pentagonella ilesi Radford, 1948: 214 , figs 3–4.

Trombicula (Trombicula) ilesi – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 66.

Trombicula ilesi – Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 131. — Zumpt 1961: 137.

Miyatrombicula (Miyacarus) ilesi View in CoL – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 24.

Holotype

BMNH 1948.2 .3.33.

Material revised

Holotype.

Distribution

This species was collected from a snake kept in Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, UK. According to the original data, it was a western green mamba distributed in Western Africa. However, Zumpt (1961) defined the host as an eastern green mamba with an East African areal. Moreover, there is no evidence that the latter host was infested by chiggers in Africa; thus, an African origin of Miyatrombicula ilesi is not confirmed.

Host

Dendroaspis angusticeps ( Zumpt 1961) , D. viridis (original data).

References

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].

Radford C. D. 1948. New larval mites (Acarina: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekidae) from African hosts. Journal of Zoology 118 (1): 213 - 222. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1948. tb 00374. x

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 c. Trombiculinae of the World. Synopsis with Generic, Subgeneric, and Group Diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco.

Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
SuperOrder	Acariformes
Order	Trombidiformes
Family	Trombiculidae
SubFamily	Trombiculinae
Tribe	Trombiculini
Genus	Miyatrombicula