Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) africanus ( Radford, 1948 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 59-60

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scientific name	Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) africanus ( Radford, 1948 )
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Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) africanus ( Radford, 1948)

Ascoschoengastia africana Radford, 1948: 220 , figs 15–16.

Euschoengastia africana – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 73. — Zumpt 1961: 161.

Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) africanus – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 87; 1966: 642, pl. G1–6.

Holotype

BMNH 1948.2 .3.32.

Material revised

Holotype, labeled as “ lectotype ”. One specimen from RMCA (No. 80617), labeled as “ Euschoengastia africana ” by the hand of Radford, but not designated as paratype.

Distribution

South Africa (Onderstepoort).

Hosts

Otomys angoniensis (original data), O. irroratus ( Zumpt 1961) .

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.