Mastalacarus namibiensis Goff & Lukoschus, 1983

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 46-47

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scientific name	Mastalacarus namibiensis Goff & Lukoschus, 1983
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Mastalacarus namibiensis Goff & Lukoshus, 1983: 2, fig. 1.

Mastalacarus namibiensis – Goff 1989: 119.

Holotype

USNM.

Distribution

Namibia (Aroab).

Host

Elephantulus intufi .

Goff M. L. & Lukoschus F. S. 1983. A new genus of chigger (Acari: Trombiculidae) from an elephant shrew (Mammalia: Insectivora) in Namibia, Africa. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 55 (8): 1 - 4.

Goff M. L. 1989. Catalog of types in the National Chigger collection of the U. S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Acari: Trombiculidae). Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology 14 (1): 95 - 134.

Abbreviations

USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Prostigmata
Genus	Mastalacarus

Mastalacarus namibiensis Goff & Lukoschus, 1983

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A. 2018

2018

Mastalacarus namibiensis Goff & Lukoshus, 1983: 2, fig. 1.

Goff 1989: 119

Specimens